No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did 'L.A. Law.'
The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.
I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign it, 'Nudge for good.' Unfortunately, that is meant as a plea, not an expectation.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.
During the Umbrella Movement, the police force wasn't in control, and the police ignored the law and tried to use extreme force to hurt people.
Unfortunately, the Obama administration is more interested in furthering its political agenda than in following the law.
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law in the early part of his first administration.
In college, I studied political science, policy, and law. My plan was to move to New York, pay off student debt in a year or two, and then run for office.
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is one in which non-Jews can become citizens and enjoy equal civil rights with the Jewish majority, the question of natural law is the question of human rights.
The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
