Leonid Hurwicz Quotes

Rules that are not stringently upheld are more likely to get broken.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

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

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

Reward and punishment are the twin instruments of power in the State; they must not be revealed to anyone.

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

No rules will be strong enough to prevent every abuse, yet good, strong regulations can stop the worst of it.

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?

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Punishment alone governs all created beings.

He no play-a da game. He no make-a da rules.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or 'anatomy' of power, a technology.

A law has to have teeth.

People should have fear of the law.

I'm all about penalizing. I've got no issue with penalizing people who are taking over their allotted time.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.