John Boehner Quotes

If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones.

New laws are written, and new men are made.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

... legislating to regulate cultural change is like lassoing a locomotive with a cobweb.

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

If we can't get where we need to go to protect people through our regulatory channels, through our legislative process, then unfortunately what we have left is our legal process.

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

In general, we believe in regulation - just as long as it is fair and balanced.

Gentlemen, since the settlement of that Constitution, now nearly two centuries ago, England has never experienced a revolution, though there is no country in which there has been so continuous and such considerable change. How is this? Because the wisdom of your forefathers placed the prize of supreme power without the sphere of human passions. Whatever the struggle of parties, whatever the strife of factions, whatever the excitement and exaltation of the public mind, there has always been something in this country round which all classes and parties could rally, representing the majesty of the law, the administration of justice, and involving, at the same time, the security for every man's rights and the fountain of honor.

The law exists to express our values.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

While a law is in force it should be lived up to. You have a right to try to change it, and if you can persuade the majority that it should be changed then it will be changed. But you must abide by a law until it is changed or you will be flouting the fundamental things that make us a democracy and a law-abiding nation.

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

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

I don’t think we can pass a law that fixes stupid.

A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.

We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.

Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems. But is it more laws that we need? We have many laws - thousands upon thousands of them - but they are constantly being broken.

We have to change the politics of Goa.

Corruption is a disease, and sometimes it's institutionalized. It takes years to remove it. But I want to remove it.

As well-intentioned as it might be, the Ali Act suffers from glaring flaws.

I took over a Brazil in the midst of a profound ethical, moral, and economic crisis. We are committed to changing our history... We want to govern by example.

Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.