“Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.”
— Roger Wicker
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“I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.”
— Aaron Allston
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“Every year, some 65,000 high school students – many of them star students and leaders in their communities – are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.”
— Gary Locke
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“Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.”
— Alan Dershowitz
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“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.”
— Felix Adler
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“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.”
— Jean de la Bruyere
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“I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.”
— Janet Reno
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“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.”
— George Herbert
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“A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.”
— Robert Frost
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“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.”
— Ron Wyden
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