Edward Snowden Quotes

We are redefining terms and rewriting laws and removing fences everywhere you turn, and we seem to think we can do that with impunity.

The end game is you change that law to making that law better, whichever law you're talking about.

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

I'd like to work on having every fourth year become a year in which no laws are made, but the old laws are reviewed, updated, or deleted as needed. That way we won't get endless, obsolete laws piling up on the books.

Whenever there's a bad law, it can be repealed or nullified.

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

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction.

If elected, I shall recommend … a uniform system of laws as far as practical for all of the States…

America should not play a solitary role with respect either to security or to reform.

We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and legal institutions from the bonds which hold a tight grip on us although they are incompatible with the needs of our century.

We should put this one-man show behind us. Instead of talking about individuals we should at last be talking about institutions and laws.

The late Sir Horace Davy introduced a Bill, which proposed that father and mother should be acknowledged equal guardians of their children. This just and logical reform secured only nineteen votes in the House of Commons.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

… since the women started out on their crusade they have scored in every project they undertook against unjust laws. I would like to see them help make the laws and those who are to enforce them. I would like to see the whiplash in women's hands.

We need to pass comprehensive immigration reform, period.

I want to do what I can to make the law make sense to citizens and businesses alike. I want the laws to assist them in worthwhile endeavors, not to stand as bureaucratic obstacles.

The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change.

The law is only our best approximation of justice, and the law needs constant revision.

We need criminal justice reform. You have heard people talk about that all over the country. I was able to work on that specific issue at home.

It's a significant contribution if we can get immigration reform done.

No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to the people, to the ground. A lot many suggestions come once it is implemented. So many laws have been amended after receiving people's suggestions.

Lawmakers need to be better stewards of policy and update it, not just keep adding on top of old laws.