Geoffrey Neale Quotes

You can't always let people do their own thing.

Limits are very important.

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

No group in any sector can go anywhere without rules.

I have rules for everything.

I don't make any rules.

The word to regulate implies in its nature full power over the thing to be regulated, it excludes, necessarily, the action of all others that would perform the same operation on the same thing.

Rules should not be barriers; they should be guides.

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

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness.

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

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

In being strict, you were able to control.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that's what perks interest. If you have full freedom, what do you do?

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

You can't, in a government agency, regulate everything that moves ... you can't regulate everything ... you must strike a balance.

Being military governor was a pretty heady job. You could turn to your secretary and say, "Take a law.

No rules will be strong enough to prevent every abuse, yet good, strong regulations can stop the worst of it.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.