"It's disingenuous and wrong to say that the attorney general's expanded powers in the Patriot Act come with adequate oversight by the courts, ... In reality, the most troubling provisions in the law make judges little more than rubber stamps in Justice Department investigations."

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Source : "Ashcroft: Patriot Act respects rights, improves security", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2003.

Anthony Romero

#Reality Quotes #Law Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.”
“Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.”
“Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.”
“Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.”
“In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.”
“I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.”
“There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.”
“My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.”

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