The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like...
BILL HADER We have very strong environmental laws in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The prob...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. For some people, the pledge is a statement that the United States is a chosen nation, that the Unite...
RICHARD ELLIS Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
SCOTT IAN People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
RICK WAKEMAN The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac...
CARLOS FUENTES It is clear that United States immigration policy is badly in need of reform.
ANDER CRENSHAW The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.
NINA BLACKWOOD The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
GROVER CLEVELAND Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
SAMMY SOSA The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to sep...
ADAM COHEN There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is bad...
BRADLEY BYRNE The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic na...
CARLOS FUENTES The tragedy suffered by the United States is a tragedy to every democratic nation.
FERENC MADL I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.
LOU DOBBS This is an indication to the nation that the legal business of the United States continues.
DAN NICHOLS the regular rules - the civil rights laws of the United States - apply in Hawaii.
ERIC GRANT My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.
JEFF SESSIONS Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have...
FRANK ZAPPA We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.
STEVE BUYER laws to allow companies to use their profits gained in the United States to build plants overseas an...
GEORGE ANTHONY I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States.
I always use the word "Union" or "...
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
FRANK ZAPPA The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit ...
TAMMY BRUCE Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.
ELIZABETH WURTZEL On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in ...
DONALD TRUMP Another grave fault in our election system is that the campaigns are unduly strung out. [Election Ad...
JOSEPH P. HARRIS As for the politicians, like everyone else in America, they were motivated by money, not ideals.
CHARLES DICKENS Indeed, it's not a stretch to say that most voters no longer choose their representatives; instead, ...
BARACK OBAMA You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in e...
BENJAMIN KANE ETHRIDGE "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
EDWARD R. MURROW To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to g...
THOMAS PAINE In other words, our constitution was designed by people who were idealistic but not ideological. The...
BILL CLINTON يا راكعين لأمريكا , أنا بريء منكم
ناجي العلي In the United States, because we are a nation of laws, you can lose an election and keep your life. ...
KELLY AYOTTE The best America is a nation where the son of Greek immigrants, with your help, can seek and win the...
MICHAEL DUKAKIS The United States began life in a moment of time with a Declaration of Independence, and then procee...
STOCKWELL DAY The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits ...
ARTHUR LAFFER It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell to...
NOAM CHOMSKY America is a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of people who never emigrate. Notably, Am...
IVAN KRASTEV There are very good laws on the books. What's important is that those laws are enforced aggressively...
AL HUBBARD You may find a lot of these soon. We need power in the United States badly, and something like this ...
HERMAN SCHELLSTEDE Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.
THOMAS MORIARTY The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules o...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca...
PAT ROBERTSON The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the law...
JIM SENSENBRENNER We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction o...
STEVEN C. ROCKEFELLER Better no law than laws not enforced.
ITALIAN PROVERB There's laws ... they need to be enforced.
JANICE DAVIS It will refer back to the states. New York is the abortion capitol of the United States because the ...
MARYBETH HAGAN One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we...
BARACK OBAMA While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most det...
HAROLD PINTER In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Cl...
RUSSELL PEARCE Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or t...
SAMUEL FREEMAN MILLER We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of I...
JIMMY CARL BLACK ...Resolved, that William Jefferson Clinton, president of the United States ... in violation of his ...
HENRY HYDE In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about bein...
KAREN L. SYED Try to look at causes and solve problems. Do not concentrate on military solutions. Do not seek mili...
EQBAL AHMED Being a superpower is like being a Santa Claus that everyone hates.
JON STEWART Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
JAMES PONIEWOZIK The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride arou...
JON STEWART ...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput...
THOMAS JEFFERSON How likely they are to travel ten miles compared to traveling across the country. Human travel withi...
LARS HUFNAGEL Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the enti...
ANDREW JACKSON It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the enti...
ANDREW JACKSON I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing e...
ELIZABETH DOLE Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The concern is that the government is using the ideological exclusion provision and other immigratio...
JAMEEL JAFFER The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress...
TRENT FRANKS As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian rel...
JOHN ADAMS As a mark of respect for the memory of Rosa Parks, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by ...
GEORGE W BUSH Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States ...
ANDREW YOUNG The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ...
ALBERT MURRAY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. the written rules were often ignored, never enforced and all the participants knew it.
GRIFFIN BELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In 2004, the General Assembly enacted a number of new DUI laws, and at that time, we became one of t...
MARTHA ROWE MITCHELL Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a ...
EZRA TAFT BENSON We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and ...
RICK WARREN The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can ...
VALERIE JARRETT We will keep fighting so that Elian can live in a free country like his mother wanted. We believe in...
LAZARO GONZALEZ And now the really difficult part: We have to rebuild Iraq into a strong and independent nation that...
DAVID LETTERMAN The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States...
JAMES LANKFORD The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women,...
NINA POWER In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON II Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit ...
H.L. MENCKEN To his own children he was at once the ultimate voice of authority and, when time allowed, their mos...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced.
ELBERT HUBBARD Laws that do not embody public opinion can never be enforced
ELBERT HUBBARD There is no human right to enter another country in violation of its laws. Illegal immigration is a ...
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