Joshua Oppenheimer Quotes

Freedom depends upon something. The rule of law.

We have a great many chiefs and headmen but, be they ever so great, they must all abide by the laws ... These laws are not made for any person in particular but for all.

The cycle of impunity must be broken …. Authorities must be held responsible …. Without accountability, democracy cannot be consolidated. We will remove the veil of impunity that covers the truth.

It is ingrained into our national life that the rule of law makes us free.

Free integral elections should be guaranteed, where values of justice and rule of law also prevail.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

We are a country of laws. When you take that away, the consequences are enormous.

The rule of law, and the idea that it applies to everyone regardless of what office that person might hold, is the chief ingredient in our democracy.

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

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

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things and bring us closer to the ideals expressed in our founding documents.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.