"The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks."

Medical, Commerce, Court, Judges

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks."

Exlpore more Medical quotes

"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."

Jack Kevorkian, American Activist

Medical, Decision, Advice

"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

Medical, Technology, Doctors

"I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended."

Leonard Alfred George Strong, English Writer

Medical, War, Work

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Medical, Care, Freedom, Prison

"Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences."

Guy Burgess, British Criminal

Medical, Body, Consequences

"Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically."

Ralph Merkle, American Scientist

Medical, People, Population, Today

"My PSA was normal but the DRE indicated there may be a problem."

Len Dawson, American Athlete

Medical, May

"I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig."

Marilu Henner, American Actress

Medical, Doctors, Libraries

"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."

Natalie Portman, American Actress

Medical, Dad

"Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor."

Abe Lemons, American Coach

Medical, School

Explore more quotes by Michael Kinsley

"It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause."

Equality

"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy."

Marriage

"He hasn't said whether he remembers the episode itself - or, if he doesn't, whether that is because it never happened or because it happened too often to keep track. More important, he hasn't said what he thinks about it all from the perspective of 2003."

Memory

"He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice."

Courage

"Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism."

Politics

"In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism."

People

"Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century."

Politics

"Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house."

Government

"The "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals."

Politics

"They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on."

Development