"I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits."

Legal, Arguments, Judgment, President

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits."

Exlpore more Legal quotes

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Legal, Winning, Defense, Fight

"We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections."

Ralph Neas, American Activist

Legal, President

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Legal, Authority, Oppression

"The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted."

Vincent Bugliosi, American Author

Legal, Court, States, United

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

Scott Turow, American Novelist

Legal, People, Being, Talk

"I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman."

Bill Frist, American Politician

Legal, Marriage, Values, Man

"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, American Judge

Legal, Wisdom, Truth, Progress

"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, Italian Public Servant

Legal, Islam, Doctrine, Law

"Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."

Robert Byrd, American Politician

Legal, Law, Value

"Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad."

Wayne Coyne, American Musician

Legal, Argument, Beginning, Song

Explore more quotes by John Podesta

"Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong."

People, Care, Right, Security

"I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress."

Faith, People, Congress, Democrats

"First and foremost, when I think of him - I'm prejudiced; I worked for the guy for six and a half years - when I think of him, I think of him first and foremost as an idea politician."

Idea, First, Years

"If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas."

People, Delay, Republicans, Result

"I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world."

People, Ideas, Order, Sense

"If medicine was practiced in 1965 the way it's practiced today, there's no question that prescriptions would have been included in Medicare."

Medicine, Question, Today

"I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits."

Legal, Arguments, Judgment, President

"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble."

Thought, People, Circumstances, Potential

"If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work."

Work, Poverty

"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward."

Ideas, Democrats