Law Change Quotes

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

We needed to be uncompromising [with our workforce], to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

A wise king must do less in altering his laws than he may; for new government is ever dangerous …

The Republicans have decided that the single most important issue facing our Nation is to change the law so employees can deny women access to birth control coverage.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.

Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

Laws matter, but typically changing the law by itself accomplishes little.

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

Trying to explain the First Step Act in prison reform in a tweet or Facebook post is not easy.

When people's love is divided by law, it is the law that needs to change.

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

I haven't sorted out the penalties. But I do know, I do know that I oppose abortion. And I favor adoption. And if we can get this law changed, everybody should make the extraordinary effort to take these kids that are unwanted and sometimes aborted, take the – let them come to birth, and then put them in a family where they will be loved. And you see, yes, my position has evolved. And it's continuing to evolve, and it's evolving in favor of life.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.