Kenneth Adelman Quotes

We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves.

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

Globalization has made multinationals more accountable, and accountable to whomever has the highest standards, rather than the lowest ones.

Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.

The rules are there for a reason.

I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.

The most important thing is there is a foundation and an accountability to a system.

Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.

Discipline must be maintained.

It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…

Fannie Mae may have conformed to the rules but the rules didn’t conform to reality. A major bank or financial institution could meet every single regulatory requirement yet still be at the risk of collapse.

How much we all suffer from lack of oversight from the government.

No rules will be strong enough to prevent every abuse, yet good, strong regulations can stop the worst of it.

All bureaucracies have to be weeded and watched.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

I have been trying to understand the regulators.

I think there is a sort of box-ticking mentality. Not just in the teaching profession. You hear about it in medicine and nursing. It's a lawyer-driven insistence on meeting prescribed standards rather than just being a good doctor.

We are constantly auditing our supply chain. Making sure that safety standards are - are, you know, are the highest. We're making sure that working conditions are the highest.

I follow the roles.

I don't like rules.

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

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

Our goal is to set the gold standard when it comes to compliance.