Quotes About Compliance

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

The President spends most of his time kissing people on the cheek in order to get them to do what they ought to do without getting kissed.

You say to your soldier, 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American, 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.

As soon as the boss decides he wants his workers to do something, he has two problems: making them do it and monitoring what they do.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

What am I afraid of? The IRS. Thats it. I dont want those people knockin on my door, man.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.

I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.

Well, enforcement theater is OK if it's reality theater. In other words, obviously, you want to make it clear, you want to make people see that the law is being enforced.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

Fine" I said icily. "I'll do this. but i want it noted that I'm doing this against my will." "I think we already figured that out, Miss Hathaway.

Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement