All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.
Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates.
All laws have unintended consequences.
As a former federal judge, I am cognizant of the legal issues. As governor, I am forced to deal with their ramifications.
The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law.
Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I say, break the law.
During the Mueller investigation, Roger Stone lied to federal investigators and allegedly pressured one potential witness. Not good. Never good.
A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they never realize that they do not eliminate these consequences but merely pass them along to other people? The result is one injustice the more and one moral the less.
Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.
The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]
If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.
The string of accusations being made against [Donald] Trump are raising new legal questions about some of these cases. Could actually be considered criminal sexual assault.
If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.
If I get busted in New York, the freest city in the world, that will be the end of my career.
This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.
For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.
As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.