(193 quotes found)
“Our position - our case - is built on clear legal precedent. The [U.S.] Supreme Court has even ruled that paintings and art prints are clearly protected under the First Amendment. Under protected speech, I don't have to get permission from anybody, including the University of Alabama, to engage in that activity.”
Daniel Moore
“Good advice usually works best when preceded by a bad scare.”
Al Batt
“The board has now set a terrible precedent telling polluters it is cheaper to pollute and ignore the Clean Water Act. Hilmar should be held to the same environmental standard as everyone else in the State of California.”
Carrie McNeil
“We didn't want this to set a precedent.”
Commissioner Darryl Steele
“It will set a precedent. We expect many foreign firms to follow suit as they show interest in China's robust economic growth amid the country's quickening pace of reforms.”
Cao Jianming
“It's remarkable in the sense there is no precedent and now it creates a precedent on that, which creates much dialogue in constitutional circles..”
David Mitchell
“To follow foolish precedents, and winkWith both our eyes, is easier than to think.”
William Cowper
“Like healthcare preparedness that preceded it, schools are one of the two 'magic bubbles' where we seem to think our children are somehow divinely protected when we put them on the bus each day. We have infrastructure that is in some cases over 100 years old, and built in a time, and in a manner, for the era when chewing gum was the major crime on campus. Today, we have to appreciate that natural disasters are on the rise, as is crime, in and around school campuses.”
Craig Marks
“I think it's a bad precedent to arbitrarily select lands in a hasty manner and trade important public land to buy asphalt to fill potholes on county roads.”
Craig Thomas
“Allowing Charles Taylor to stand trial for war crimes sets a very controversial precedent for African heads of state and former heads of state because many of them ... have blood on their hands.”
Corinne Dufka
