Quotes About Authority

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

Without question, I'm not a fan of the EPA. The EPA has overstepped their boundaries each and every day. They get into areas they shouldn't be involved in... the states have the right to regulate themselves if they have the ability to do so - and we do because we have the Department of Environmental Quality.

The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated issues with encryption must be addressed thoughtfully and nationally.

My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.

Generally I'm against regulation.

There is no such thing as free regulation.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations.

Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.

You have to abide by the regulations that the regulators insist on. This is not a philosophical divide - it's a fact of life.

There is no question that the federal government sometimes overdoes it in issuing rules and regulations.

There are a lot of guidelines and regulations that come with being a military kid and being raised on a military base. It gives you a structure and discipline on what not to do and right and wrong. I've been used to it my whole life.

It's very important to have the comfort of the regulator in every geography where you operate.

Britain needs a tough, strong financial conduct regulator.

In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it's five or six. You all should ask the question how American that is.

The reign of Henry VIII is the axis around which England turns.

The BJP, during its reign, has never misused Article 356.

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.