Top 87 Leahy Quotes
#1. We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
William P. Leahy
#2. Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.
William P. Leahy
#4. Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.
Frederick S. Leahy
#5. You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Patrick Leahy
#6. One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
William P. Leahy
#8. No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.
William P. Leahy
#9. She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.
Patrick Leahy
#10. A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.
Patrick Leahy
#11. I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
William P. Leahy
#12. What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?
William P. Leahy
#13. Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.
Patrick Leahy
#14. What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.
William P. Leahy
#16. This is a time when the protections of Americans' liberties are directly at risk, as are the checks and balances that have served to constrain abuses of power for more than 200 years. The Supreme Court is relied upon by all of to us protect our fundamental rights.
Patrick Leahy
#18. A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.
Frank Leahy
#19. The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.
William P. Leahy
#20. Follow the customer, if they change, we change.
Terry Leahy
#21. Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.
William P. Leahy
#22. For the church to say that abortion is not acceptable for a Catholic is fine. To say directly or indirectly that on something that is a church teaching that you must also vote according to that - that's not acceptable in a country based on the First Amendment.
Patrick Leahy
#23. Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.
Patrick Leahy
#24. If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'
Peter T. King
#25. I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
William P. Leahy
#26. There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
Patrick Leahy
#27. She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.
Patrick Leahy
#28. The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.
William P. Leahy
#29. You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well.
William P. Leahy
#31. In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.
Patrick Leahy
#32. I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community.
Patrick Leahy
#33. You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
Frank Leahy
#34. At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance.
Patrick Leahy
#35. When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.
Frank Leahy
#36. I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that anything you did you'd have to do on your own, so it does make you quite motivated.
Terry Leahy
#38. Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
Patrick Leahy
#39. Be more tolerant of the difficult people. They're the creative ones. They're not happy with the status quo.
Terry Leahy
#40. By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus ... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine.
William P. Leahy
#41. I say let's respond as best we can to the victims and their families.
William P. Leahy
#42. Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
Patrick Leahy
#43. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.
Samantha Leahy
#44. If you find it difficult to accept failure then you simply won't get any innovation because employees will be too frightened
Terry Leahy
#45. The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.
Patrick Leahy
#47. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.
Patrick Leahy
#48. This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.
William P. Leahy
#49. The American public is sick and tired of being lied to.
Patrick Leahy
#50. Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.
Frank Leahy
#51. We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.
William P. Leahy
#52. There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down those just beneath them." 121
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Michael Leahy
#54. The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.
Patrick Leahy
#55. The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
William P. Leahy
#56. Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
William P. Leahy
#57. BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.
William P. Leahy
#58. Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.
Frank Leahy
#59. I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.
Patrick Leahy
#60. Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.
Patrick Leahy
#61. We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy
#62. Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.
Samantha Leahy
#63. Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
William P. Leahy
#64. The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy
#66. The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
Patrick Leahy
#67. Freedom breeds uncertainty; uncertainty invites chaos.
R.J. Leahy
#68. The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.
Frank Leahy
#69. There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
Frank Leahy
#70. As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.
William P. Leahy
#71. [Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.
Patrick Leahy
#72. The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
William D. Leahy
#73. A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
Patrick Leahy
#74. Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act.
Patrick Leahy
#75. When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents.
Chuck Grassley
#76. The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the Technology and Law committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy.
Patrick Leahy
#77. I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
William P. Leahy
#78. Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.
William P. Leahy
#80. Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
Patrick Leahy
#81. The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
Patrick Leahy
#82. The court that serves America should reflect America.
Patrick Leahy
#83. There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.
Samantha Leahy
#84. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy
#85. The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.
Frank Leahy
#86. We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.
Patrick Leahy
#87. As the elected representatives of the American people, all the people, nearly 300 million people, that we in the Senate are charged with the responsibility to examine whether to entrust their precious rights and liberties to [Supreme Court] nominee.
Patrick Leahy
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