Quotes About Eminent Domain

#1. What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

Thomas Sowell

#2. What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said.

Ron Rash

#3. While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

Solomon Ortiz

#4. But remember this: all of these people that we're talking about, they're friends of mine. They all love the Keystone Pipeline, right?
The Keystone Pipeline is all eminent domain. They're building that pipeline without eminent domain, you wouldn't be able to build.

Donald Trump

#5. I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'
Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government,

Terry Pratchett

#6. I didn't say wonderful, I say eminent domain is something you need Chris. Eminent domain - if I build a highway - go ahead. I know exactly what you're saying. But if I build a highway, and if something's in the way of the highway, you're going to have to do something with that.

Donald Trump

#7. One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

Jim Ryun

#8. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Sheldon Richman

#10. The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

Cesar Romero

#11. He'd read in a textbook once a quote by the famous Captain Reynolds: I am not a brave man. But bravery, like most things, can be faked. And sometimes, in rare instances, it will lead to the real thing.

Dan Krokos

#12. We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

Marshall McLuhan

#13. Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Talcott Parsons

#14. It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

Norman Rockwell

#15. The best definition of man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

Donald L. Hicks

#17. Online bullying has to stop.

LeAnn Rimes