Warrants Quotes

• So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

  Robert Mueller

  Purpose

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• He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Children, Spokes, Said

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

  Layne Staley

  Girlfriend, Tired, Two

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• President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand.

  Helen Thomas

  Fighting, Names, Rights

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• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jesus, Modern, Invention

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2270, e-artnow

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• Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Hair, Doors

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• California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  California, Style, Doom

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• White supremacist ideology is based first and foremost on the degradation of black bodies in order to control them. One of the best ways to instill fear in people is to terrorize them. Yet this fear is best sustained by convincing them that their bodies are ugly, their intellect is inherently underdeveloped, their culture is less civilized, and their future warrants less concern than that of other peoples.

  Cornel West

  Order, White, People

  Cornel West (2000). “Race Matters”, p.85, Beacon Press

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• Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.

  Dodie Smith

  Heart, Broken, Paper

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.565, Random House

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• My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

  Dan Brown

  Boards, Breakfast, Lawyer

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

  Edward Snowden

  Attachment, Data, America

  The Guardian live Q&A, www.commondreams.org. June 17, 2013.

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• Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

  Samantha Power

  Hypocrite, Rights, Historical

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• I think there would be less torture with a warrant requirement than without one.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Would Be, Requirements

  Alan M. Dershowitz (2008). “Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge”, Yale University Press

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• Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.

  Tim Ferriss

  Suicide, Media, Two

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• Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Heart, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2014). “Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation”, p.114, The Floating Press

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• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Fear, Halloween

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• Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.

  Bobby Jindal

  Home, Office, Police

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  John Locke

  Love, Truth, Science

  As paraphrased in "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for our Time" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 500), 1979.

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  The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Power, Libertarian Party

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

  Pete du Pont

  President, Franklin, Authority

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• If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

  Geezer Butler

  Music, Boys, Poison

  "GEEZER BUTLER - 'The '80's Were The Worst Period For Metal'". Metal Exiles Interview, bravewords.com. March 24, 2005.

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• The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

  Ron Paul

  Government, House, Secret

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, World, Influence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  President, Constitution, Appropriation

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

  Rose Bird

  Cancer, Dark, Agency

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