The 17+ Ted Olson Quotes

It Happens Every Once In Awhile At The Federal Level When The Solicitor General, On Behalf Of The U.s., Will Confess Error Or Decline To Defend A Law. I Don't Know What Is Going Through The [obama] Administration's Thought Process On 'don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It Would Be Appropriate For Them To Say 'the Law Has Been Deemed Unconstitutional, We Are Not Going To Seek Further Review Of That.'

I Immediately Called The Command Center Of The Department Of Justice To Let Them Know That My Wife Was On A Plane That Had Been Hijacked. I Mainly Wanted Them Know There Was Another Hijacked Plane Out There.

My Wife Had Taken Off On A Plane. Two Airplanes Had Crashed Into The World Trade Center. I, Of Course, Like Any Other Person, Felt Potentially Devastated, Panicky A Little Bit.

I Wanted It Not To Be True. I Wanted It Not To Be Her Plane. I Wanted It - I Wanted, If It Was Her Plane, To Have Somehow Survived Because She Was In The Back Of The Airplane. But We Know That Doesn't Happen, Not With Those Sorts Of Things.

The Plane Took Off At 8:10 In The Morning - Or That's When It Was Scheduled To Take Off. And That's When I Believe It Took Off. I Had Been In My Office At The Department Of Justice. Someone Told Me That There Had Been The Two Strikes That Occurred At The World Trade Center.

Would You Like Fox's Right To Free Press Put Up To A Vote And Say Well, If Five States Have Approved It, Let's Wait Till The Other 45 States Do?

Well, She Managed To - Barbara Was Capable Of Doing Practically Anything If She Set Her Mind To It. In Retrospect, I'm Not Surprised That Barbara Managed To Get Collect Calls Through.

No One Aspires As A Child To Grow Up And Enter Into A Domestic Partnership. But They Do Aspire As Children To Grow Up And Be Married.

The United States Supreme Court Has Repeatedly Held That Marriage Is One Of The Most Fundamental Rights That We Have As Americans Under Our Constitution.

Another Argument, Vaguer And Even Less Persuasive, Is That Gay Marriage Somehow Does Harm To Heterosexual Marriage. I Have Yet To Meet Anyone Who Can Explain To Me What This Means. In What Way Would Allowing Same-sex Partners To Marry Diminish The Marriages Of Heterosexual Couples?

She Said It Had Been Hijacked Shortly After Takeoff. By This Time, The Plane Had Been In The Air - Again, I'm Presuming That It Took Off On Time - For Over An Hour.

The Supreme Court Has Said That: Marriage Is The Most Important Relation In Life. Now That's Being Withheld From The Plaintiffs. It Is The Foundation Of Society. It Is Essential To The Orderly Pursuit Of Happiness. It's A Right Of Privacy Older Than The Bill Of Rights And Older Than Our Political Parties. One Of The Liberties Protected By The Due Process Clause. A Right Of Intimacy To The Degree Of Being Sacred. And A Liberty Right Equally Available To A Person In A Homosexual Relationship As To Heterosexual Persons.