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The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. -- Henry Miller
The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt. -- Joe Baca
However, we do not lack anti-terrorist laws. I do not believe that the recent London bombs were the result of any deficiencies in our legal system. -- Kenneth Clarke
The legal system in Afghanistan is very immature and porous. -- Lindsey Graham
My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years. -- David Eagleman
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system. -- David Minge
I couldn't swear that I believed in the law - or in the American legal system. -- Felice Picano
It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system. -- Samora Machel
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system. -- Cherie Blair
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system. -- Paul Gillmor
I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it. -- Amber Frey
I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction. -- Marc Rich
The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. -- Bryant H. McGill
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security. -- John Garamendi
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. -- Iain Banks
Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. -- Thomas Carper
We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court. -- Lindsey Graham
Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. -- Rahm Emanuel
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. -- Patricia Ireland
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. -- Elena Kagan
Let's create a legal system that can work. -- Sam Brownback
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love. -- Dennis Miller
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor. -- Warren Farrell
My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system. -- Jack Nicholson
We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system. -- Charles Kennedy
But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. -- Lee Greenwood
In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. -- Aly Khan
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. -- Noah Feldman
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. -- George Papandreou
Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail. -- Doug Bandow
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't. -- Michael Arrington
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. -- Teju Cole
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. -- Paul Valery
We for sure need to secure the border. I think we need to enforce the legal system. I'm not for amnesty, I'm not an advocate of the plans that have been pushed here in Washington... we need to find a way for people to have a legitimate legal immigration system in this country, and that doesn't mean amnesty. -- Scott Walker
Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists...it is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability, without regard to economic status. -- Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland. -- Damian Barr
I'm concerned with protecting the legal system. -- Alexei Navalny
Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system. -- Vladimir Putin
Fed role - legal system, currency & defense, within its means. -- Pat Toomey
The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice. -- Earl Warren
For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong. -- Wayne LaPierre
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. -- Bill Bright
It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements. -- Hillary Clinton
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. -- Alice Schwarzer
We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence. -- Garrison Wynn
Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients. -- Alan Dershowitz
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. -- Frederic Bastiat
We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this. -- Adel al-Jubeir
The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly. -- Jodi Picoult
No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch. -- Andrew Tobias
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions. -- John Stossel
Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work." -- Lawrence Joseph
The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense. -- Charlie Munger
We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system. -- John Kaplan
The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious. -- Lawrence Lessig
Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that. -- Leonard Little
They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on. -- Ian Shoales
There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays. -- Alan Russell
Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I want our legal system to work better. I want it to be streamlined. I want it to be clearer. You shouldn't have to hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into the USA legally. -- Mitt Romney
Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists. -- Edward Kennedy
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. -- Frederic Bastiat
We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform. -- Dean Spade
Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it. -- Reza Aslan
I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country. -- Mark Fuhrman
In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial. -- William Safire
I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails. -- Rebecca West
In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen. -- Edward Kennedy
The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of one man one vote. Any country or Government which wants to proceed towards tyranny starts to undermine legal rights and undermine the law. -- Margaret Thatcher
Muslims have to give up three things if they want to become Europeans: They have to bid farewell to the idea of converting others, and renounce the Jihad. The third thing they need to give up is the Shariah, which is the Islamic legal system. -- Bassam Tibi
We are not here to adopt Western values, we are here to colonize the U.S. (and Canada) and spread Islamic sharia law Canada has one of the easiest legal systems to penetrate and advance sharia from within...but if that doesn't work, we won't hesitate to use violent jihad. -- Tariq Ramadan
The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of judicial behavior could be readily determined. If you can determine the ripeness of a cantaloupe by squeezing or smelling it, you don't have to worry about the produce clerk's mental processes. -- Richard Posner
Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system, which is expected to be under democratic vigilance, and others are left to the person or the group, which ideally debate moral problems in a rational, free and cooperative manner. -- Mario Bunge
In case after case, President Bush's actions have made American women less safe and less secure -- on the job and on the streets. As president, I will put American government and our legal system back on the side of women. I will stand up for their security, ensure their safety, support their rights, and guarantee their dignity. This nation can do no less. -- John F. Kerry
Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant. -- V. R. Krishna Iyer
I think it's very healthy to use journalistic and legal techniques to investigate the evidence for and against Christianity and other faith systems. -- Lee Strobel
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America. -- Marco Rubio
The U.S. immigration system is the most generous in the world, providing each year more green cards for legal permanent residence with a clear path to full citizenship than all the rest of the nations of the world combined. -- Jan C. Ting
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other. -- Hannah Arendt
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third Century Roman jurist, Julius Paulus Prudentissimus. Yet, this ancient concept, which forms the legal and moral cornerstone of the American judicial system, is quickly being undermined in the name of 'national security.' -- Bob Barr
We need to fix our legal immigration system. -- Carly Fiorina
...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty. -- Marco Rubio
I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system. -- Bill Gates
Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream. -- Ted Cruz
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system. -- Marco Rubio
Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law. -- J. Stalin

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