Orrin Hatch famous quotes

04-17-2025

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Graduation #Exercise #Reason
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Death #Punishment #Our Society
If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Gun #Law #Drawing
Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Military #Government #Scary
We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards" [referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon]
-- Orrin Hatch

#Fear #September 11 #World
We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.
-- Orrin Hatch

#September 11 #September
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Independent #Thinking #Artist
Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Hands #Order #Law
No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Real #Judging #May
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Children #Sacrifice #Community
We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Expectations #Facts #Sometimes
The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Practice #Doors #Facts
I sleep so much better at night, knowing that America is protected from thin pickles and fast ketchup.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Sleep #Night #Knowing
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Education #Inspire #Looking Ahead
But I bear witness to Christ, too. I really know him to be the savior of the world. And that means more to me than almost anything else I know.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Mean #World #Bears
If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder
-- Orrin Hatch

#News #Wonder #Programming
As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'
-- Orrin Hatch

#Wall #Dark #Average
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Technology #Practice #Competition
You know, we should not be giving cash to people who basically are just going to blow it on drugsand not take care of their own children.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Children #Blow #Giving
I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Stupid #Dumb #Ass
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Taken #Hero #Fighting
The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Trials #Pay #Lawyer
The place where you got to get revenues has to come from the middle class. That's where the huge number of people that are there. So the system does need to be revamped [to tax the rich less and the middle class more.]
-- Orrin Hatch

#Class #Numbers #People
In my legal practice, I have seen certain Federal judges controlled or influenced by large corporations..., by large law firms...on more than one occasion(, and) ...by special interests...(some) ought to be thrown right off the bench because they are breaking every code of conduct...
-- Orrin Hatch

#Dark #Law #Practice
I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.
-- Orrin Hatch

#Life #Thinking #Cells
However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs..
-- Orrin Hatch

#Dark #Fda #Drug

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