Enforcement Mechanisms Quotes

We have institutions, but they don’t work. We have laws, but they must be enforced.

What always happens if you have automatic sanctions legislation is it puts enormous pressure on whoever is in the executive branch to fudge an evaluation of the facts.

Any agreement with Iran should have strong verification and enforcement safeguards to prevent future cheating.

Let us face it, there is no law in any country - to my knowledge - that makes it illegal to clear-cut forests, nor to erode our topsoil, nor to generate greenhouse gases over and above that which can be absorbed by dwindling natural sinks. What is more, even if such laws were enacted, I can see no effective mechanism anywhere in the world for applying them.

I worked diligently alongside our labor community to ensure that the priorities of our community were reflected in the USMCA, helping to secure strong enforcement mechanisms, protections for workers and the environment, and provisions to lower the skyrocketing cost of prescription drugs.

What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.

There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

Global human rights law prescribes global norms of conduct. It leaves the question of how to enforce these norms to the countries themselves.

… law as it exists in the modern community may be conveniently, although perhaps not comprehensively, defined as the sum total of all those rules of conduct for which there is state sanction.

If we want corporations to act differently, we have to force them to do so through laws that are fully enforced and through penalties higher than the economic benefits of thwarting the laws.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

Transparency agreements typically take years to negotiate, lack effective enforcement mechanisms, and focus on narrow issues, such as arms control, where the parties see an advantage, or at least little risk, in trading secrecy for stability.

What is crucial is there be laws.

Regulatory enforcement mechanisms need to be sure and they need to be swift.

Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.

The treaty … had absolutely nothing in the way of verification or enforcement provisions. Everybody recognized that this was a grave deficiency, but I make no apology for the treaty. We really had a choice of concluding a treaty without any verification measures or having no treaty at all.

The policies and the laws are no better than the people who are enforcing them.

Laws can only be as effective as the willingness of people to obey them.

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?

Law, without force, is impotent.

Treaties take away something that we take for granted—that you can change something the does not work. They stop us from fixing our mistakes.