The Islamic Republic has never sought tension in the region and does not want any trouble in global waterways, but it will… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people. — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
The year 2015 brought me so many further chances to spread the word about human rights violations in North Korea, from addressing… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would… — Scott Sanders Copy Share Image
Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in… — Katie Cleary Copy Share Image
Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the… — Penelope Spheeris Copy Share Image
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly… — Jonathan D. Morris Copy Share Image
[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Beto's copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act -… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Economic dynamism can be combined with environmental and social responsibility. High financial returns can go hand in hand with respect for human… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights — Claudia Cardinale Copy Share Image
A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary… — Anthony Romero Copy Share Image
The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I don't know if the unborn has rights, but I do know that being born again doesn't give you more rights. — A. Whitney Brown Copy Share Image
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share Image
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security… — Phil Crane Copy Share Image
Liberation and equal-rights issues notwithstanding, it was a man's job to make a woman feel cherished and respected. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade… — Cindy McCain Copy Share Image
Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family. — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
“It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you… — Lynn Samuels Copy Share Image
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society. — Daron Acemoglu Copy Share Image
I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization,… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them. — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights…We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
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