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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

We are involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets, but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful, legal and safe tactics of the past.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

I am not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

I do not plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.