Charlie Baker Quotes

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

The balance of a commonwealth that is equal is of such nature that whatever falleth into her empire must fall equally.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Power should be a check to power.

If a ruler can get rid of private crookedness and promote the public law, his people will become secure, and his state will become well ordered.

The lesson is the importance of never becoming untethered to oversight and accountability.

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

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

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

'Was I not born in the realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is not my kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to another's harm? What turmoil have I made in this commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard to the same? How have I governed since my reign?

Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her voice is the harmony of the world.

In government it is order that matters.

Oversight was not meant to be comfortable.

Without justice, development is not possible.

I want to live … where the people who make the rules have to live by them.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

If we don't have access to facts, we can't trust each other. Without trust, there's no law. Without law, there's no democracy.

If there is not competent Opposition, the government that comes to power won't have anyone to hold them accountable.

Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.