Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.
Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.
The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.
I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.
Rufus T. Firefly: I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school!
Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.'
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
