Jacob Zuma Quotes

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

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

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

In the United States almost every political question becomes a legal question—or at least a question with legal dimensions.

Laws form the most important portion of a nation's history.

We needed to be uncompromising [with our workforce], to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

I don't believe in altering the Constitution.

Our government depends upon the rule of law.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

The Constitution: it's not just a good idea, it's the law.

We are nothing but by the law.

I take my marching orders from the Constitution.

Law is the ultimate science.

It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…

I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

There can be no liberty without the law.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

Societies cannot move forward without law, and our constitution is the cornerstone of the law and our National Assembly is its umbrella and fortress.