Eli Yishai Quotes

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

Do not have any doubt that I will apply the law over whoever is responsible for not complying with the law.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The Law is the Law!

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

That means that I shall be under the law, which it is treason to affirm.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

The intelligent ruler does not value people who are of themselves good without rewards and punishments. Why is that? The laws of the state cannot be neglected, and it is not one man who is being ruled.

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.

Nobody, no family, is above the law.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

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 will always be a rule. There will be people who break the rules. There will be consequences. We fundamentally think these things will be true for a time. The question becomes, What are the consequences? Who enforces the consequences? What are the worst consequences?