3,047 Quotes About Law

Von Neumann languages do not have useful properties for reasoning about programs. Axiomatic and denotational semantics are precise tools for describing and understanding conventional programs, but they only talk about them and cannot alter their ungainly properties. Unlike von Neumann languages, the language of ordinary algebra is suitable both for stating its laws and for transforming an equation into its solution, all within the "language.

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

The more Americans find out about President Barack Obama's health care law, the less they like it. A majority of Americans want out.

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

We ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal.

An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.