Barack Obama Quotes

Nobody is allowed to break the law.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

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

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

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

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.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

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.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

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.

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

What is crucial is there be laws.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

That means that I shall be under the law, which it is treason to affirm.

Former good legislators have erred, and those of the best polity may err again, and enact laws which ought to be disobeyed and resisted.

The priest accustoms the child to the idea of law, to make it obey better what he calls the "divine law," and the lawyer prates of divine law, that the civil law may be the better obeyed.

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

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

If you will not enforce the law, I will.

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

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

What I believe in is I believe in law.