Quotes about State Compliance

Abraham Lincoln

I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.

Elton Gallegly

Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

Ted Cruz

The Obama administration has abused the executive power, enforcing Common Core on the states. It has used race to the top fans to effectively blackmail and force the states to adapt Common Core. But in one silver lining of Obama abusing executive power is that everything done with executive power can be undone with executive power and I intend to do that.

Thomas Jefferson

When any one state in the American union refuses obedience to the Confederation, by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience.

When the 13 states were united only by the loose bonds of the Confederation, Jefferson wrote:

Benigno Aquino III

China itself has said repeatedly that they will and have been conforming to international law.

John Brown

Slavery has beene permitted by the Supreeme Governour of all things for time Immemorial, and whenever I am Convinced as you are, that its Wrong in the Sight of God, I will Immediately Desist, but while its not only allowed by the Supreeme Governour of all States but by all the Nations of Europe...I cannot thinke this State ought to Decline the trade.

Brown was then a member of the state legislature representing Providence. He was also himself a ship owner in the slave trade and he was the brother of the leading Rhode Island abolitionist, Moses Brown. See {585793}. John Brown became the first American, prosecuted in federal court for illegal slave trading –-- a prosecution brought, in part, by his own brother, Moses. He was acquitted.

G. John Ikenberry

... authoritarian states sign on [to human rights treaties] solely for propaganda purposes and then find it fairly easy to flout the rules.

In some cases, the authoritarian state signed on with a "reservation". Egypt signed with the proviso that nothing is binding if it contradicts Islamic law, and then proceeds to violate many of the most basic of human rights of many of its citizens using the most fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic Law—Sharia. Women's rights are trampled upon via this method. The Government claims that they ae signatories to the treaty and follow it.

Alexander Lukashenko

We have fulfilled all our agreements and all the conditions set by the IMF better than any other state.

State Compliance Quotes