Top 36 Jonathan Turley Quotes
#1. Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency.
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#2. I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia.
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#3. In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
Billy Joel
#4. I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.
Kenneth Lay
#5. I've said it before: Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be. You know, he's been allowed to act unilaterally in a way that we've fought for decades.
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#6. I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.
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#7. Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming.
Vishen Lakhiani
#8. While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.
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#10. That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
Henny Youngman
#11. Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.
Ozzy Osbourne
#12. The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.
Azar Nafisi
#13. Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.
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#14. Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.
Brad Garrett
#15. After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.
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#16. Few people know that President Obama has used drone attacks many times more than Bush ever did. Obama's off the charts in terms of drone attack.
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#17. I wanted to let form lead my thinking, and repetition always confronts you with the interesting problem of how to break out of a cycle that seems so deterministic, which was germane to the story's concerns.
Catherine Brady
#18. Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.
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#19. For many, the recent disclosure of massive warrantless surveillance programs of all citizens by the Obama administration has brought back memories of George Orwell's '1984.' Another Orwell book seems more apt as the White House and its allies try to contain the scandal: 'Animal Farm.'
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#20. In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#21. There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist ... If he swings, it will be from right to far right.
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#22. Writing fiction ... is no job for intellectual cowards.
Stephen King
#23. Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying.
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#24. Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
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#25. Bill Clinton was impeached primarily for criminal conduct: lying under oath and misleading a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Nixon would have been impeached for a wide array of criminal acts, as well as abuses of power.
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#26. People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.
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#27. I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
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#28. There's a misconception about Barack Obama as a former constitutional law professor. First of all, there are plenty of professors who are 'legal relativists.' They tend to view legal principles as relative to whatever they're trying to achieve.
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#30. Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
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#31. There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him.
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#32. It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
Matt Lucas
#33. It doesn't matter whether I can repair it or not. I want to be part of your life, and that also means the tough moments. I may not be able to solve the situation, but I can sure as hell listen to you. Hold you. Offer you my support. Shoulder your burdens. Soothe your pain.
Elle Aycart
#34. I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.
Marco Pirroni
#35. It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.
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#36. In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
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