Michael Bloomberg Quotes

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

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

There is an international law just as there has always been a law against theft, but because the thief gets away with his booty at times is no reason why we should say that the law against theft has been abrogated.

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

If you are really going to have a law on the books, you should either enforce it or get rid of it..

People are unwilling to enforce the laws on the books. Instead, they make more laws. Why can't we get this right?

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

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

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.

I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by example. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

I well understand that the role of Attorney General is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it.

A chief executive doesn’t get to pick and choose which laws he will enforce.

Court rules do not cause crime.

If laws are going to work in this country, there has to be some finality.