Statutory Requirements Quotes

All laws are promulgated for this end: that every man may know his duty; and therefore the plainest and most obvious sense of the words is that which must be put upon them.

The policy which has been adopted by the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior in dealing with these matters was submitted to me prior to the adoption thereof, and the policy decided upon and the subsequent acts have at all times had my entire approval.

The greatest threat we've had to economic growth has been that those in industry don't know what is expected of them. Rules come that are outside of statutes. Rules get changed midway. It creates vast uncertainty and paralysis, and re-establishing a vigorous commitment to rule of law is going to help a lot.

Government regulation is not a dangerous usurpation of your Constitutional rights. It's just a pain in the ass.

Give administration a chance to catch up with legislation.

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.

I will be the first to admit that I've made my own mistakes when it comes to Virginia's disclosure requirements.

When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the claim are true.

The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

It's harder to pass a law than stop one.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

What is crucial is there be laws.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law.

It's one thing to change regulations on the city level, another on the state, and still another on the federal. The higher the levels are, the more difficult change gets.

I don't want to, on behalf of the bureau, comment on Ohio law as opposed to Washington law as opposed to Colorado law.

Regulatory reform is my agenda. I intend to thoroughly work on this.

I'm not going to speculate about legislation that I haven't seen before.