Ted Olson Quotes

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• Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till…
• The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation…
• It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information,
• No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and…
• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
• The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
• The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it…
• I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing;…
• It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to…
• These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for…
• I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her…
• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt…
• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it…
• I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been…
• Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can…
• You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy…
• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit…
• Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that…

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