Administrative Law Quotes

A question like the present should he disposed of without undue delay. But a State cannot he expected to move with the celerity of a private business man; it is enough if it proceeds, in the language of the English Chancery, with all deliberate speed.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Open rules! Open standards! Open findings! Open precedents!

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

The federal government should not be able to hide behind sovereign immunity when the facts don't meet the protections.

Any bureaucracy must be restrained by law.

The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

What one has created by regulation, one could address by regulation.

In our administration, we're going to follow the law, and any policy that we move forward will fall well within the law and the Arizona Constitution.

We need an attorney general that's going to be an advocate for the state of Missouri and is willing to intervene in the regulatory process and go to court to protect Missourians from over-regulation.

[…] over the past decade, we’ve argued in court in favor of administrative latitude in decision-making. Now, by asserting the primacy of states rights, we’re flipping that argument on its head. How do we go back to all these cases where we’ve been arguing for executive discretion and say, “Oops, we didn’t mean it”?

No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.

Well the appeals happening because we believe the certification process uh, hasn't worked out the way it should, that there hasn't been substantial evidence to support their certification.

The U. S. Code of Federal Regulations is over 170 thousand ages long.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

In many respects, you can argue Dodd-Frank isn't even law. It's a license for unaccountable, un-elected officials to make law.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly.

As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.

A court's assessment of an agency's compliance with statutory limits does not depend on whether the agency's policy is good or whether the agency's intentions are laudatory.

Government is not an exact science.

When a nationwide injunction constrains a significant executive policy, the Justice Department has little choice but to seek emergency relief.

Congressional intervention and the availability of intervention demonstrably offset agency indifference; are a guard against arbitrary, improper, and illegal bureaucratic decisions; and provide the power of public pressure to require the nonelected official to be responsive.

Judicial review has developed since the 1970s as a way for individuals to challenge decisions taken by the State.