Howard Simon Quotations

What the Registered Traveler achieves is convenience for some but at the expense of security for all. It's a false sense of security.

What we're dealing with is officers on street patrol, which is more effective and more consistent with the Constitution, ... We'll have to see how it is implemented.

She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.

Nothing is done until it gets done. But I think it's safe to say that we are certainly staying in close touch with the Orioles.

If they attempt to do what he apparently wants to do, the people of Naples and Collier County, Florida, are in for a whole series of legal and constitutional problems and a lot of litigation indefinitely into the future.

I don't think it will have any effect on protecting children. It's sadly more about politics.

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

I stuck to my end of it and if they had, they wouldn't be wearing so much egg on their face. There is never a deal until it's done, and done means everything, all the terms and conditions have to be agreed up, not just some of them. I'm not looking to throw darts, but the fact of the matter is it's really a Baltimore problem.

Who knows how many weeks or months it could take?

We don't confer government power on religions, and we don't give religious organizations government power.

There are other ways to protect people in the state of Florida without resorting to this barbaric kind of botched executions.

There are hundreds of thousands of people in Florida who do not have the right to vote. They have committed crimes many, many years ago, and they have turned their lives around.

The governor, legislators and those charged with the responsibility of educating Florida's children should now forget about vouchers for private and church-run schools and work for the improvement of neighborhood public schools.

While this case involves the right of Rush Limbaugh to maintain the privacy of his medical records, the precedent set in this case will impact the security of medical records and the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship of every person in Florida.

This thoughtful and careful opinion will be very important in the history of Florida because it is a strong affirmation of the privacy rights of the people of Florida and a strong rebuke to politicians who attempt to interfere in medical decisions that should be left to all of us and are simply not the business of politicians.

I see the case as creating two extremes. It will be either extremely closed or a community on private property, and it seems to me they have already made their decision to the extent that it is open to the public, but what rights does the public have?

That's just one of the absurdities of the policy. We're not any safer, just a lot less free.

This is good news for voters because now these records will be open and available for public inspection to help protect the right of every eligible voter in Florida. Our interest in this case is to analyze the information on the list to prevent eligible voters from being wrongfully purged from the rolls.

There was harsh, intimidating language that appears to be very subjective and open-ended. ... The club almost has the right to do whatever it wants, at its option. That's how complicated the language is. The other clubs simply have one line that states it is subject to the player passing a physical. That's what Pittsburgh's document has.

This lawsuit is not about the Pledge of Allegiance. It is about his right to choose not to stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

It sounds like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem.

This is just more posturing by Florida politicians to look tough on crime and on people with past felony convictions. What does denying funds to low-income people to save on energy costs have to do with fighting crime?

If there was a chapter of the ACLU in Collier County, we would be looking at a wide range of issues in the area. There are too many civil liberties issues for us to focus on.

If he wants to build a town and encourage like-minded people to come and live there, that's fine. We get into problems where he tries to exercise governmental authority.

I can't believe the doctors in Collier County would agree to practice with one hand tied behind their back. I'm not sure (carving out treatment exceptions) is permitted, and it's definitely unethical.

Governments don't tax the exercise of constitutional freedoms, that's why we have municipal budgets and publicly funded police departments. People don't pay to exercise their First Amendment rights, that is contradictory to how the Constitution works.

The truth is, it goes much further than that,

This is a classic example of a censorship crusade by local government bureaucrats who are relying on their own subjective definition of obscenity to arrest someone even before any court has found that this Web site is illegal. What right do Polk County officials have to decide what people who live in Berlin and London and Hong Kong and New York access in the privacy of their own homes?

The commission may have a right to do it, but it may not be necessary. People don't get elected to public office with a promise to not get bored.