Scott Pruitt Quotes

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

What is crucial is there be laws.

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

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.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

For it is always to be remembered that it is the spirit with which a constitution is in practice administered, that is the great point of consequence, far more than the letter of the law

The rule of law is crucial to a civilized society - so we should go out of our way to uphold and strengthen it to the extent possible.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

We are a country of laws.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.

America is a country of laws.

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

The American people have a right to except that the rule of law will guarantee that even if we don't like the policy, that it's done properly.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.