Jean-Pierre Raffarin Quotes

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

The only legitimacy we have is the law—not what politicians tell you …. The legal system in this country is what distinguishes us from every other attempt at Republican Democracy that failed.

Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.

We have to be a nation of laws.

Our country is governed by the rule of law and our procedures are based on law.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

What is a Rechtsstaat? It is obedience to the existing law.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law.

Make but few laws but see them well observed when once made.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

Israel is a society governed by the rule of law.

I think we live in a country that sometimes forgets how effective the rule of law is, perhaps because our governments have often found it inconvenient.

There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.

Of course in a democracy the government and the citizens have to abide by court rulings, even if we don't like them or don't agree with them.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.