After 25-plus years as a lawyer prosecutor and defense attorney I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society they are the rights of all the people.

Human rights commissions as they are evolving are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

The most important element of a free society where individual rights are held in the highest esteem is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Today Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium tonight is a sad night for athletics.

I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So for me I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights freedom and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Since achieving their independence in 1992 the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law respect for human rights and a free market economy.

The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy freedom justice and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.

Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights or are used as an excuse for others to do so.

How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies that respect human rights that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is that so far as she is concerned their rights are protected.

For about ten years now the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

The respect for human rights essential if we are to use technology wisely is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary it is integral to science as also to scholarship in general.

The new republic should be based on diversity respect and equal rights for all.

Instead in the absence of respect for human rights science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

Where the people possess no authority their rights obtain no respect.

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go as I say more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

For this reason the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

Live with integrity respect the rights of other people and follow your own bliss.

First and foremost I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity rights and respect.

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.