Turley Quotes

#1. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#2. There's no question that Roberts will vote like William Rehnquist ... If he swings, it will be from right to far right. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#3. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite' ... The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? In it is supreme tranquility. - Author: Jules Verne

#4. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#5. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#6. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#7. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#8. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#9. VERY WELL, ROLAND OF GILEAD.
'VERY WELL, EDDIE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, JAKE OF NEW YORK.
'VERY WELL, OY OF MID-WORLD. - Author: Stephen King

#10. 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.' - Author: Jonathan Turley

#11. Peace is rooted in our Nature. - Author: Joyce Mihran Turley

#12. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#13. There are many people that frankly cannot get themselves to oppose Barack Obama. They make a lot of excuse for him. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#14. Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself. - Author: Vanessa Paradis

#15. Good men don't need to become legends. They just do what's right anyway. - Author: Brandon Sanderson

#16. It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#17. In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#18. I'm making tapes for insomniacs to use in the future. I'm going to sell them as a kit to cure insomnia. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#19. it doesn't matter how you are looking..
but how you want to look ....it matters. - Author: Marco

#20. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#21. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#22. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#23. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#24. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#25. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#26. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley

#27. Three years later, Mr. Turley has received no reply to his letter. Nor can anybody account for the missing money: saints, it seems, are immune to audit. - Author: Christopher Hitchens

#28. 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. - Author: Jonathan Turley