State Law Quotes

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

I am the law in Indiana.

There is only one state in the nation that has no fire code: Texas. There is only one state in the union whose laws prohibit their counties to have a fire code: Texas.

A Bill of Rights is unnecessary as the fundamental rights of individuals are secured by express provisions in the State Constitutions.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in this State,…. Nor shall any indenture of any negro or mulatto, hereafter made and executed out of the State, or if made in the State, where the term of service exceeds one year, be of the least validity, except those given in the case of apprenticeships.

The current Michigan Constitution was written in 1961 and '62.

In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.

I never would force the Justice Department to go to California and arrest people getting medical marijuana, when that's the law there.

Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.

Almost all law in the United States is State law.

Be careful. Legal at State was worried about this yesterday—Genocide finding could commit the U. S. Government to actually do something.

Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.

The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.

Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.

It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

I will make Mississippi the capital of capital punishment.

To govern the state by law is to praise the right and blame the wrong.

Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.

If those are not your values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic state, then Australia is not for you

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.