Marvin Ammori Quotes

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.

You know how in movies the new president comes in and promises to perform sweeping actions with a stroke of a pen? The Administrative Procedure Act is designed to thwart this sort of maneuver.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

When a nationwide injunction constrains a significant executive policy, the Justice Department has little choice but to seek emergency relief.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.

Legislation must be passed which undoes the damage caused by excessive de-regulation. That means reinstalling the regulatory firewalls that were ripped down in 1999.

Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Repealing rules therefore requires federal agencies to explain why the factual and scientific bases for the predicted benefits of their rules were wrong or no longer adequate to justify those rules.

'Sue and settle' involves the creation of environmental rules and regulations through lawsuits filed by environmental groups against the EPA, not through Congress or proper rule-making.

I don't write policy for my government.

A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Government is not an exact science.

Federal bureaucracies are creatures of Congress, not the executive.

The main product of government is laws.

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

Rational as distinguished from vindictive regulation by public authority turns out to be an extremely delicate problem which not every government agency, particularly when in full cry against big business, can be trusted to solve.

Stare decisis is usually the wise policy, because in most matters it is more important that the applicable rule of law be settled than that it be settled right. ... But in cases involving the Federal Constitution, where correction through legislative action is practically impossible, this Court has often overruled its earlier decisions. ... This is strikingly true of cases under the due process clause.

Regulators are very heavily lobbied and they tend to give in…. We must have strong, vigilant, regulators.

Spanish legislation is full of the sternest laws, enacted in utter disregard of their contingent and ulterior consequences provided the immediate object in view can be effected.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.