“Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.”
The law is supposed to be the framework for a fair society, though it does not always live up to that promise. These quotes explore justice, rights, the legal system, and the ongoing tension between the letter of the law and its spirit.
“The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.”
“Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.”
“Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.”
“FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.”
“After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.”
“Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.”
“I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.”
“It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.”
“I do not believe abortion should be legal.”
“I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.”
“We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.”
“Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.”
“Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.”
“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.”
“Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.”
“It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.”