Anthony Trollope Quotes

I don't have the luxury of ignoring the law and running a program that's unlawful.

If an employer decides to flout the law, it may be guilty of criminal offences and subject to serious financial liability.

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.

If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.

If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it continued to exist, it would be illegal, and doing anything blatantly illegal in China puts their employees at serious risk.

Fannie Mae may have conformed to the rules but the rules didn’t conform to reality. A major bank or financial institution could meet every single regulatory requirement yet still be at the risk of collapse.

The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized.

I was, as president and chairman of the board, required by law to verify the veracity of the financial figures, the assets under management, the number of outstanding shares, et cetera.

I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.

Those who violate classification rules will be held responsible to the fullest extent of the law, something which we don't do too much anymore.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.