Quotes About Law

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

It is quite wrong that one group of people should regularly and deliberately flout the law, boast about it and get away with it.

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.

Generally I'm against regulation.

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of speech.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

I think what is effective regulation is one that follows the law and one that will be held up in court.

Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.

Even when safety guidelines and regulations are in place, the rate of chemicals acceptable by law may be far higher than what is genuinely safe.

There are rules and regulations, and we live in a country where the Constitution gives us rights and at the same time there are things that have to be restricted. Hence, I believe the law of the land should be adhered to.

By the time I finished doing regular practice, most of my work was in international regulatory law, so I was advising foreign governments about their responsibility and roles in things like public inquiries.

Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.

The Indian state has to be minimalist in regulatory interventions in social and economic matters; maximalist in providing the quality of life needs; and optimal in the maintenance of law and order.

Mandatory minimums are focused on punishment, not rehabilitation.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.

Tough action is being taken on criminals involved in robbery, kidnapping and other related crimes.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based set of international relations, based on the rule of law and in accordance with the U.N. Charter.

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities.