Why Does it Make Sense to Follow the Law

Well, sometimes you want to speed, and sometimes you want to jaywalk, and sometimes you do both of these, even though you know they are against the law. The President, in the aftertalk of the last Cabinet meeting of the year, kept playing with his hands, it was very funny, alternately tapping them on the table. Anyway, he said some outrageous stuff, totally dismissing the very existence of international law.

International law? What's that? My lawyer didn't bring that up with me.

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I don't know what you are talking about "international law"

--President G. Walker Bush