Protections Quotes

Lesbian and gay Nebraskans understand that getting rid of this law won`t help their families get protections immediately. But it will at least allow them to begin talking to lawmakers about their families and how they are harmed when treated like legal strangers.

With this level of failure, it makes little sense to weaken protections for fish,

There were some games that things weren`t working very well, we weren`t getting the protections, and we had to be a little bit more conservative. But there were times I felt we could have opened it up a little bit more.

Congress has failed to act to shore up wetlands protections after the Supreme Court decision. And as bad as the Supreme Court decision was, the Army Corps has made it worse by going further than the opinion required.

(The Washington-based Environmental Integrity project reported this week that in the past few months, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened vast tracts of wetlands to development.) Congress has failed to act to shore up wetlands protections after the Supreme Court decision, ... And as bad as the Supreme Court decision was, the Army Corps has made it worse by going further than the opinion required.

I`m for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It`s also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

Mostly they`re coming in the passing game, in blitz pickup and protections and check-downs, ... He`s got the running game pretty much covered. He`s in the right place all the time.

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

Now is not the time to give greater protections to pharmaceutical companies that put unsafe drugs like Vioxx on the market. Such protections have nothing to do with the liability insurance crisis facing doctors and should be stripped from this bill.

It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don`t need protections against it.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Under Illinois law, these captive customers are entitled to regulated rates and consumer protections that have been in place for almost a century,

You have a real constitution that protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. These protections are among the most far-reaching of any in the region and probably around the world.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.