Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.

The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and leaders throughout history and throughout the Biblical narrative. However, the state is growing precisely as the church is fading as a force for good, and this does not seem to be a good trend.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.

The courts are under the Constitution, not over it.

We cannot continue to claim that we are a nation of laws and not of men if our laws and, indeed, even the Constitution of the United States itself, may be summarily breached because of some determination of expediency or because the President says “trust me.”

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up .... The law ought to be supreme over all.

Be you never so high the law is above you.

The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society, depends so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislature and the executive, and independent upon both that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

The law is king. The king is not the law.

Law should rule over rulers, and not rulers over the law

… an empire of laws and not of men.

We are a government of laws, not a government of rationalizations.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister can be investigated like any other citizen.

Even the president is not beyond the reach of the First Amendment.

The integrity of our government, our Republic, fundamentally relies on the principle that no person, not even the president or the nation's chief law enforcement officer, is above our laws.

The president can violate the law, and when he does, he is supposed to be held accountable. That is supposed to be one of the pillars of our democracy.

No one is above the law, not even the President.