Warrants Quotes

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

  Robert Mueller

  Purpose

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• The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

  Sherrod Brown

  Phones, Nsa, President

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

  Frank Spotnitz

  Character, Years, Creating

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.

  Dr. Seuss

  Different, Selling

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• The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.

  Vannevar Bush

  Art, Law, Design

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• The entrances I make now, when we kick in the door of a high-risk warrant, eighty percent of the homes we're kicking into, it's dark in there for some reason. That's just the way the bad guys are doing it now. So now all of my sights are night sights; I've also put special light rails on the bottom of all of them so I can put a special light on them that's combination white light/laser.

  Steven Seagal

  Home, Dark, Night

  "Choose Your Weapon: Steven Seagal Talks His Favorite Guns". Complex Interview, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

  Adam Smith

  Mean, Political, Arithmetic

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.474, Harriman House Limited

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• God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.

  John Piper

  Son, Hands, Wrath

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