Edwin Meese Quotes

We don't really like rules. We think, in some way, they are an infringement of liberty.

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

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Once the government starts forbidding things, then someone will come around the corner saying, “I’ve got it.”

Process is your friend, but process also dictates what you can do.

I don't like rules.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Everything I want to do is Illegal.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

As long as the mind clings to belief, it is held in a prison.

IAR is policy, always has been.

Hey, size works against excellence.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

Tether even a roasted chicken.

Well, my own men's collection always felt very free back in the days before Jil. Once you make it this kind of dialogue with other people, with a fashion show and clients and whatever, it becomes something else. Free meets not so free.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.