Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Rose

When we have consent decree with the city, we've got an obligation to ensure compliance, ... We've got to do what we can to enforce it.

We're seeing more and more informed consent laws passed that are politically motivated, with items in there trying to dissuade women from having abortions, rather than being politically neutral and giving women true risks and benefits.

Richard Riordan

They're not going to get a consent decree. I'm saying that unequivocally,

Edward Snowden

The consent of the governed is not consent if it is not informed

Richard Blumenthal

Consent is simply a fig leaf for marketing.

Consent in many ways is the same as notification.

David Trimble

We want to ensure that nothing is imposed upon the people here, that their consent is paramount.

Gerrit Smith

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.

There's nothing hidden on the consent agenda. It's all public. It reflects staff implementing what we approved.

We will not consent to pay any fine.

Rita Mae Brown

Familiarity breeds consent.

Robert Browning

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

Miranda July

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

People will not be satisfied if their wishes are not met. They will not consent to prolonged obstruction of cross-Strait links.

Jack Straw

only if the Iraqis themselves consent to the process.

Charles Canady

Meaningful, constitutional parental consent laws are designed to help and protect minors. Today, we are voting to uphold those laws.

Jeff Merkley

My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

Thomas Jefferson

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed

I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me.

at the request of and with the consent of a government.

It is incredibly hard to win a suppression motion in this state, because the evidence of consent is largely circumstantial.

William Kidd

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

Albert Camus

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Dave Morin

Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false.

Taping anyone's private conversations without proper consent is illegal. Printing those conversations -- when they serve no public interest -- is unethical and potentially illegal.

It's time the president leveled with the American people, because no foreign policy can be sustained without the informed consent of the American people, ... They have not been informed of that fact.

All students, 18 and over, have to sign consent to release information about their health records.

Rebecca Skloot

The laws are still very unclear. Cells are still taken from people without consent - a lot of people don't realize it.

The government is either going to consent to a retrial because the jury verdict was tainted by potentially perjured testimony or the government is going to have to explain to the court why the prejudiced testimony was harmless -- in other words, that the testimony did not influence the jury's verdict.

Joseph Conrad

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.