Law Compliance Quotes

My responsibility is to follow the law.

Conscience and public opinion enforce the laws. The police suppress the exceptions.

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

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

You have to almost apologize for saying, please enforce the laws. The laws, that they're [government] receiving good federal dollars to be able to ensure for public safety, which is incumbent upon them to secure on the streets in every city and state across this country. And instead government allows individuals who are a risk, who are a threat, to come back in the country, routinely, regularly without any kind of checks and balances.

I'd think people would want me to follow the law and pay only what the tax code requires.

The powers specially vested in me by the act laying certain duties on distilled spirits, … have likewise [been] carried into effect…. The novelty, however, of the tax in a considerable part of the United States and a misconception of some of its provisions have given occasion in particular places to some degree of discontent; but it is satisfactory to know that this disposition yields to proper explanations and more just apprehensions of the true nature of the law, and I entertain a full confidence that it will in all give way to motives which arise out of a just sense of duty and a virtuous regard to the public welfare.

Is the nation able to enforce its own laws -- its own charter - in the face of an unsympathetic and actively hostile minority?

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

My job is to enforce the laws of Florida.

This law will be impossible to enforce. It will produce contempt for our laws and law enforcement.

Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.

The Foreign Office works hard to remind people of local laws and customs as often they can be very different to British law.

No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn't appropriate.

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

We are, after all, a nation of laws. And we live in a culture where carrying a form of identification is as normal as keeping your car keys in your pocket. When any of us walk into a grocery store and cashes a check, no one skips a beat when asked to present our driver's license.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

We respect law, when the law respects our needs.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.

For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.

Peace will be restored by enforcing the rules for millions for overstay their visas. Our laws will finally receive the respect that they deserve.

As long as U.K. remains member of the E.U., it should respect the E.U. law.

I could easily say that, for quite a long time before I became mayor, I had obeyed all laws.