Official Discretion Quotes

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

Our whole system of self-government will crumble either if officials elect what laws they will enforce or citizens elect what laws they will support.

I'm the elected sheriff, and I'm going to keep doing what the Constitution says I can do.

It is to be lamented that Officers will not exercise more discretion and prudence when entrusted with the execution of an order which seems to invade the rights of a Citizen not perfectly conformable to the Laws.

We are a nation of laws, not department-wide memos.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

In theory, the rules are strict enough to preclude all discretion that might corrupt the process. In practice they enable misguided, unsure, stubborn, or biased procurement officials to justify any decision.

administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

I obviously understand that each team has the opportunity to prepare the balls the way they want, give them to the officials and the game officials either approve or disapprove the balls. That really was the end of it for me until I learned a little bit more about this .

I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.