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Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated. -- Clara Zetkin
Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it should be - all need at least four years of college. -- Robert Reich
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country. -- Faye Wattleton
Once you start to provide public services that have to be run under public rules, for example child protection, then it has to go with public law. Institutions have to make a decision whether they want to do that or they don't want to do that. -- Trevor Phillips
The royal family are protected from public accountability by law. -- Heather Brooke
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? -- Ramsey Clark
My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service. -- Kenneth Chenault
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. -- Wendell Phillips
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. -- Earl Warren
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. -- Barry Commoner
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. -- Grover Cleveland
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. -- David Dinkins
Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public. -- Al Franken
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers. -- Pat Robertson
And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive. -- Roy Barnes
In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends. -- Dirk Kempthorne
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law. -- Scott Turow
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. -- Orrin Hatch
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. -- Barbara Boxer
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' -- Mara Liasson
While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern. -- Jay Nixon
In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on. -- Jude Law
The law is the public conscience. -- Thomas Hobbes
Public opinion's always in advance of the law. -- John Galsworthy
Judges . . . rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should... -- Warren E. Burger
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield -- Earl Warren
Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. -- Emile Capouya
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. -- Samuel Johnson
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement. -- Ayelet Waldman
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion. -- Ambrose Bierce
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. -- George Orwell
Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times. -- Warren E. Burger
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome. -- Thomas E. Mann
That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law. -- William Jennings Bryan
A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law. -- Marc Morial
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. -- Mary Frances Berry
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law. -- Nelson Mandela
We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society. -- Ernestine Rose
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. -- William Butler Yeats
Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle. -- Earl Warren
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. -- James F. Cooper
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. -- Ezra Stiles
. . when the target of crime is armed, there is more law present, more public policy present, and more public interest served than by all 20,000 gun laws in force. -- John Longenecker
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. -- Irving Kaufman
the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public. -- Thomas Jefferson
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. -- Martin Van Buren
Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. -- Andy Grove

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