Illegal Quotes - Page 33

• Everything is optional.
  Somethings are illegal.
  And some things are really gross.

  Craig Benzine

  Gross, Optional

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• Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.

  Ofir Drori

  Elephants, Ivory, Together

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• But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

  Maria Cantwell

  Hiking, Energy, West

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• The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

  Bob Woodward

  Power, Numbers, Illegal Activities

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• It's illegal to be naked.

  Kanye West

  Naked

  "Kanye gives rambling 8-minute awards show speech" by Stephanie Smith, pagesix.com. January 24, 2015.

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• We can still find middle ground, truly secure our borders, deal with those already here and address our labor needs. But those who advocate giving current illegal aliens and future guest workers a special path to citizenship must compromise.

  John Shadegg

  Giving, Special, Borders

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• . . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation that would make the licking of toads illegal; Lisa Presley marries Michael Jackson. You read these things and you think to yourself that realism may not be the best medium through which to express the real world.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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• About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

  Peter DeFazio

  Book, Oil, Would Be

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• Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to hand Big Brother the keys to unlock our e-mail diaries, open our ATM records, read our medical records, or translate our international communications.

  John Ashcroft

  Brother, Communication, Hands

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• Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the male-to-female side of the coin have done sex work. I've done it myself for a couple of years. It's a place we can make a living and have some fun doing it. It's a place we seem to fit in.

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Couple, Fun

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• I think that street art is illegal and it has to stay illegal.

  Invader

  Art, Thinking, Streets

  "Artist Interview: ‘Invader’ on Hong Kong’s ‘Wipe Out’, street art policy – Exclusive". urban-dna.org. May, 2015.

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• If they make it illegal to wear the veil at work, bee keepers are going to be furious.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Veils

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• They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

  Jeb Bush

  Commitment, Law, Broke

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

  Lisa Kristine

  World, Slavery

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• Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Life, Country, Moving

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• There's tremendous crime and illegal immigration is just incredible. As far as Rubio, he's very weak on immigration, you know, I have great relations with Mexico and I love the Mexican people, and the spirit of the Mexican people. These are people just pouring across the border.

  Donald Trump

  Love, People, Mexican

  "Jeb's right to (finally) rise; Gwen Graham's cash haul; Grayson's hedge-fund woes; FL Senate redistricting battle flares; Confederate flag rebellion" by Marc Caputo, www.politico.com. July 8, 2015.

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• We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Long, Criminals

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• I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.

  Brad Templeton

  Real, Thinking, Law

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• Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

  B. C. Forbes

  Honesty, Character, Men

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• In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color is pronounced illegal. I am perfectly aware of the gross ridicule to which I may subject myself by alluding to this particular; but I have lived too long, and observed too much, to be disturbed by the world's mockery.

  Lydia M. Child

  Color, Law, Long

  "An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Chapter VIII, utc.iath.virginia.edu. 1833.

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• A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is related to the outlaw Tudeh Party, or in other words is a traitor. Such an individual belongs in an Iranian prison, or if he desires, he can leave the country tomorrow, because he is not an Iranian, he has no nation, and his activities are illegal and punishable according to law.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Country, Party, Organization

  "Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah". Book by Marvin Zonis, p. 75, 1991.

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• There is no taboo after this assassination and no one of the Palestinian leaders has immunity anymore, ... It shows once again the necessity to collect the illegal weapons and to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

  Silvan Shalom

  Organization, Leader, Weapons

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• If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.

  George Carlin

  Voting, Would Be, Changed

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• Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.

  John Bolton

  Fighting, Enemy, United States

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