"The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are."

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Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

Donald Verrilli Jr.

#Law Quotes #People Quotes #Decision Quotes

“How soon would faith freeze without a cross!”
“A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.”
“Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.158, Bread and Circuses Publishing
“True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.”

Source : Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company
“I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent."”
“There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.”
“Wow. Losing 95 percent of your audience in just five years. That basically makes Obama the NBC of presidents.”
“People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.”

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