Quotes on the topic: Civil


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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.


I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.


Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.


It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.


I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.


I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.


A civil servant doesn't make jokes.


Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.


I believe health care is a civil right.


If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.


I am for registered civil partnerships.


King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.


We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.


I certainly support civil unions.


When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.


I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.


In 2003, GlaxoSmithKline paid $88 million in civil fines for overcharging Medicaid for its anti-depressant Paxil.


I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.


You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.


Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.