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In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. -- John George Nicolay
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. -- Ted Cruz
If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order. -- Cal Thomas
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. -- Bill Gates
Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. -- Tom Tancredo
Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. -- Barbara Olson
For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton. -- Brian Kernighan
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. -- Dick Thornburgh
Clear limits should be set on how power is exercised in cyberspace by companies as well as governments through the democratic political process and enforced through law. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent. -- Leopoldo Lopez
President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda. -- Tom Rice
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license. -- Andrew Thomas
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied. -- Charles de Secondat
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. -- June Jordan
All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development. -- Wen Jiabao
Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales. -- Barbara Mikulski
I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics. -- James Howard Kunstler
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Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle. -- Ely Culbertson
Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law... -- Ira Forman
I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta. -- Romano Prodi
The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics. -- Baltasar Garzon
If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. -- Carol Moseley Braun
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. -- William Randolph Hearst
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. -- Zephyr Teachout
The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law." -- Edward Snowden
We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never. -- Mack Sennett
Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. -- George Soros
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law -- Auberon Waugh
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. -- Charles Krauthammer
I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics. -- Rebel Wilson
I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science. -- Jay Roach
The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other. -- Woodrow Wilson
The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. -- Belva Ann Lockwood
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. -- Belva Ann Lockwood

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