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Let me be clear – no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I’m just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I’m thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.

So he’s above the law because he’s a celebrity or something. Just because you’re Russell Crowe doesn’t mean you can do whatever you like.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

Live like the Kennedy’s, above the law.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.

The law is above the law, you know.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men’s eyes–there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

Impeachment is our system’s last resort for someone who treats himself or herself as above the law, the most relevant thing is whether this president, by his recent course of action, on top of his violations of the foreign corruption or emoluments clause, this president has shone that he cannot be trusted to remain within the law and our constitution’s last resort for situations of that kind is to get the person out of office.

As God as my witness, they said, We’re above the law. There’s nothing you can do to us. You’re just a church secretary.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you’re above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one’s above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest.

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

A police officer wears a uniform. They’re sworn to uphold the law. They’re public servants. And they should not be above the law.

There’s something seriously wrong with Google. Technologically, they’re brilliant, sensational. But morally, its management is completely adolescent. The company is so big and so arrogant, they do whatever they like, they think they are above the law.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

We will ensure that nobody is above the law and demand an end to the instability and armed chaos.

We saw groups of people gathering in front of Lula’s house in Sao Paulo this morning. You had people shouting at one another, and some fistfights even broke out. Some of his supporters are claiming that this is equivalent of a coup attempt, an attempt to remove Rousseff from power and prevent Lula from running again. And other people are saying that this is simply a display of rule of law in Brazil, that no one in Brazil can be above the law at this time.