Kenneth Langone Quotes

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

Federal criminal prosecutions are a direct function of the number of U. S. Attorneys. The more prosecutors that are appointed, the more criminal prosecutions there will be.

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

If we refuse to obey our own laws, can we really preach to the world the importance of the rule of law.

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

We have to be a nation of laws.

The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name.

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

There is no more important institution in our country than the Department of Justice.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

I learned a couple things. The government can do to you whatever they want. They can break the laws, federal laws, as they see fit... You can't turn laws on and off as you deem fit.

The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.

Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.