The rules are there for a reason.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

One rule that will work if it is used everywhere, is that when you have a free-kick, the referee puts the mark on the floor to make sure the defenders keep their distance.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good.

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Order is heaven’s first law.

Integrity has no need of rules.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

One aim of the Boy Scouts scheme is to revive amongst us, if possible, some of the rules of the knights of old.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasn’t it made illegal? To me, that did not add up.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

In time of war the laws are silent.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.