Aristotle Quotes

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

When Federal law conflicts with state laws and the will of the American people, it's time to change the laws, not circulate edicts.

As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

People are offering competing visions of what happened in the past. And the justice system is willing to accept either of those competing visions and to impose consequences as a result. When you think of it that way, it's a little bit startling, because we want to believe that there is one truth and, therefore, one justice, whereas, if you have practiced law as long as I have, you realize that there is actually a range of acceptable outcomes.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

We didn't make much progress on the country's agenda. And in my view it's because the Senate basically hadn't done much of anything, with a couple of exceptions, for the last four years [of Barack Obama's presidency]. And that's going to change.

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

Look what the American people did with the comprehensive immigration bill. That was all lined up to get past and the American people spoke and then many members of Congress who were in favor of it changed their mind.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.