‘The Dovekeepers’ is a fantastic novel written by Alice Hoffman; it was a bestselling novel, and I fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it. – Roma Downey
Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another. – Richard Perle
As a consequence of these hesitations and of the vague character of such innovations, the Commission on Human Rights itself had doubts from the beginning about its role and its functions in general. – Rene Cassin
Our ideals are under the constant threat of extremism, whether in the form of radical Muslim groups or the emergence of other elements seeking to deny the rights and freedoms of others. – Reuven Rivlin
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act’s provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts. – Roger Wicker
The United States Senate wasn’t designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states. – Olympia Snowe
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. – Richard Perle
The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. – Rene Cassin
All initiation of force is a violation of someone else’s rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it’s supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals. – Ron Paul
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. – Pasquier Quesnel
Citizens’ rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone. – Phil Schiller
The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. – Patrick Leahy
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage. – Robert Kennedy
A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won’t release it for a remake. – Patricia Highsmith
My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn’t have survived the crash. – Rick Allen
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. – Rene Cassin
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. – Ronald Reagan
I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault. – Richard Hanna
If your religion doesn’t respect the rights of other religions, it is lacking something. – Roger Ebert
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don’t know how Jackson ended up with the rights. – Ralph Bakshi
I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights. – William Lacy Clay, Jr.
The term ‘human rights defender,’ incidentally, isn’t something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing. – Ward Churchill
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there’s always the word of the Iraqis themselves. – Timothy Noah
In the more than four decades since Roe v. Wade, it has become clear that some will stop at nothing to obstruct women’s reproductive rights. – Suzan DelBene