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  • Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.

    Mean   Law   Important  
  • So he's above the law because he's a celebrity or something. Just because you're Russell Crowe doesn't mean you can do whatever you like.

  • No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf.

    Law   Justice   Behalf  
    "Baltimore Prosecutor Charges Six Police Officers, Calls Freddie Gray’s Death a 'Homicide'". Press Conference, www.democracynow.org. May 01, 2015.
  • Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

    Mean   Men   Law  
  • Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

  • If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

    Law   Wife   Judging  
    Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.361
  • We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

    Law   Demand   Chaos  
  • No one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

    Leon Jaworski, Dick Schneider (1981). “Crossroads”, David C Cook
  • As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

    Law   Church   Said  
  • No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

    Believe   Law   President  
  • Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

    Law   Police   Criminals  
  • No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

    Law   Matter   Individual  
    "Citigroup pays $7bn to settle sub-prime mortgage investigation" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2014.
  • No man is above the law.

    Men   Law   Atheism  
  • I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

    Law   Want   Masters  
    Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.364
  • While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George III and had in 1776 accused the king of all the things that George W. Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.

    Kings   Law   People  
  • In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

    Law   America   England  
  • Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

    "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.
  • If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

  • The law is above the law, you know.

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Little Brothers”, p.89, Open Road Media
  • Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

    Song: Boomerang, Album: Capital Punishment, 1998
  • If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

    Eye   Men   Law  
    Greg L. Bahnsen (1985). “By This Standard: The Authority of God's Law Today”, p.175, American Vision
  • People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it's unequivocally putrescent. The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.

    Believe   Law   People  
  • Famous people are above the law.

    Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015
  • 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.

    War   Rights   Law  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

  • No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

    Third Annual Message to Congress, 7 Dec. 1903. "No one is above the law" appears in the U.S. Supreme Court case Mississippi v. Johnson (1867) (arguments of counsel). Even earlier, "no officer ... is above the law" is found in a Kentucky Supreme Court case, Johnston v. Commonwealth (1809).
  • I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

    "Obama would ask his AG to 'immediately review' potential of crimes in Bush White House". www.philly.com. April 14, 2008.
  • Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

    Government   Law   People  
  • No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
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