Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by 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.

You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

Respect for the law is not an obligation which is exhausted or obliterated by willingness to accept the penalty for breaking it.

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

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

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

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

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

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 Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil, those who disrespect the law will feel the weight of that very same law.

People should have fear of the law.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

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

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.