A Quote by Matt Gaetz

We shouldn't tell prosecutors to 'pick and choose' what laws to uphold.

Matt Gaetz

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Matt Gaetz
American - Politician
Born: May 7, 1982

Apple exists as a corporate entity with the protections provided by U.S. laws, but it cannot be allowed to pick and choose when to abide by those laws as it sees fit.

Richard Burr

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Ronald Reagan

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Lou Barletta

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

Kelly Ayotte

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

Henry Rollins

I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

Barack Obama

A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

Rasheed Wallace

I came to believe that actually [Louis] Brandeis tended to uphold laws that he liked and strike down those that he didn't, generally strike down centralizing federal agencies in the New Deal, and uphold state economic experimentation.

Jeffrey Rosen

Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.

John Irving

In general, presidents do sit for interviews or respond to requests from prosecutors because they take their constitutional responsibility to faithfully execute the laws seriously, and running away from a prosecutor isn't consistent with faithfully executing the laws.

Neal Katyal

I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.

Pilou Asbaek

The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.

Michael Sandel

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

Luther Strange

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

Patrick Wilson

I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.