
Under our old immigration law, even Christopher Columbus would have had a hard time getting into this country.
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Under our old immigration law, even Christopher Columbus would have had a hard time getting into this country.

Today we have met here in the Cabinet Room to see the President sign into law a new minimum wage.--One dollar and sixty cents an hour.

The Immigration Act of 1965 does assign quotas on a basis of equality.

I believe the answer to that problem is a simple one and that Congress has given it in the law itself.

The Government's paramount interest 'is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.'

No act of my entire administration will give me greater satisfaction than the day when my signature makes this bill, too, the law of this land.

This Nation deserves and must have a capital city which is in the very front rank in respect for law by its citizens, and in safety for its residents and visitors

The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 is a good law.

Nothing in this order shall be construed as subjecting any Federal agency, or any function vested by law in, or assigned pursuant to law to, any Federal agency, to the authority of any other Federal agency, or as abrogating or restricting any such function in any manner.

The demands upon courts of law are many, and they are varied, but the courts that we create in specialized fields as much as other courts must serve the same end, and that is the good of all men.

Americans are free to disagree with the law but not to disobey it.

It is hereby amended by substituting for Section 3 thereof the following:

How can we improve on the Constitution?

I would say this. Naturally, I am not a lawyer and I don't participate in drawing up the exact language of proposals.

I think everybody that went on this trip became convinced of this: in the long run, no laws are going to solve this problem completely.

As a result, the record before me is one of unresolved disagreements of fact and law.

There are adequate legal means of determining all of these factors.

Our present laws on immigration and naturalization are not, in my opinion, good enough.