Robert Zoellick Quotes

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

So far, I've never missed a deadline for a term paper, a review, a manuscript. I perform the mumbo-jumbo of voting with belief in my heart, I've not yet won even a jaywalking ticket, and unlike my father, whom I fault in this respect, I refrain from opting out of jury duty; instead, they mostly kick me out.

People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

I am pathetically law-abiding.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Obedience to the law is itself a moral duty.

In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.

I just want everybody to follow the law.

Let's get our civic laws right and abide by them.

I would never ever knowingly break the law.

My responsibility is to follow the law.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch as he that goes over to the enemy.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

If the official is himself upright, the people will play their roles without orders. If he is not upright, even under orders the people will be disobedient.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

Laws can only be as effective as the willingness of people to obey them.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.