Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.

I don't think the Internet should be immune to the standing laws of countries.

Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.

International Law

Human rights and due process of law transcend all boundaries.

When you are dealing with the United States Government and the Department of Justice you have to always be looking over your shoulder.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction

We don’t care what the cost-benefit is. We’re going to build it somehow because Congress says it’s going to be built.

Ethical and legal are not synonyms. ;

Constitutions are in politics what paper money is in commerce. They afford great facilities and conveniences. But we must not attribute to them that value which really belongs to what they represent. They are not power, but symbols of power, and will, in an emergency, prove altogether useless unless the power for which they stand be forthcoming.

I am the law in Indiana.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be lack of adherence to the rule of law

The Federal Trade Commission is not an enforcement agency.

If we don’t enforce the regulations we have, these conversations are useless.

I think it makes no difference whether or not I endorse it. The Constitution is as the Supreme Court interprets it and I must conform to this and do my best to see that it is carried out in this country.

The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

Nobody stands above the law.

My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that I have, and when litigation is used to regulate... that's abusive. That's wrong.