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Comply Quotes

Comply is a word that shows up whenever rules meet reality, and these quotes trace that tension across very different scales. One quote describes exhausting diplomatic effort to get a country to comply with its own agreements and international law, with force considered only once diplomacy fails. Another turns to newer ground, questioning whether new blockchain-based funding models comply with existing securities laws at all. A third zooms in on the small producer, someone running a modest operation or feeding a few hundred head of cattle a year, and asks how they are realistically meant to comply with whatever rules eventually apply to them.

These comply quotes show that following the rules looks very different depending on your size and stakes, from a nation weighing diplomacy against enforcement to a small operator just trying to keep up.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

Quotes by Tom Daschle

Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different lesson.

Quotes by Sharyl Attkisson

The RFA requires federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small firms, and if significant, consider less burdensome alternatives. Federal agencies sometimes fail to comply at all, or simply 'check the box,' fulfilling the letter of...

Quotes by Sam Graves

In consumer protection, you can say it hurts business; that is, it makes them comply with the law, which is actually what we want them to do, but it helps consumers.

Quotes by Richard Cordray

Agreements Quotes

Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very...

Quotes by Recep Tayyip Erdogan

ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for...

Quotes by Naval Ravikant

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with...

Quotes by Mike Johanns

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.

Quotes by Kofi Annan

I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.

Quotes by Kirstjen Nielsen

Business Quotes

Social engineering is using manipulation, influence and deception to get a person, a trusted insider within an organization, to comply with a request, and the request is usually to release information or to perform some sort of action item that...

Quotes by Kevin Mitnick

For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

Quotes by Karen Hughes

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

Quotes by Jonathan Turley

Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

Quotes by James Clapper

Effort Quotes

Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

Quotes by Ike Skelton

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Quotes by Howard Fast

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

Quotes by Harold H. Greene

I am the individual who formed and funded W Spann LLC. I authorized W Spann LLC's contribution to Restore Our Future PAC. I did so after consulting prominent legal counsel regarding the transaction and based on my understanding that the...

Quotes by Edward Conard

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Quotes by David Dinkins

I Am Quotes

The complexity of a tax system is every bit as damaging to competitiveness as the overall tax rate. The more convoluted the tax code becomes, the more time we have to take off work to comply with it.

Quotes by Daniel Hannan

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the first comply quote describe about international law?
It describes exhausting diplomatic effort to get a country to comply with its own agreements and international law, noting that force was only considered after diplomacy had been fully tried.
Is there a quote about complying with financial regulation?
Yes, one quote questions whether new blockchain-based funding methods comply with U.S. securities laws, raising doubt about whether every such venture even qualifies as a genuine company.
How is compliance discussed for small producers?
One quote asks how a small operator, running a few hundred units or feeding a modest number of cattle each year, is realistically supposed to comply with whatever new rules eventually apply to them.
Do these comply quotes favor big institutions over small ones?
Not exactly, but one quote does note that a large producer can usually figure out how to meet new rules, while a small producer faces a much harder time complying with the same requirements.
Where can I find more quotes about agreements and commitments?
Our Agreements collection is a natural companion for more on rules, trust, and following through.

For more on rules and shared commitments, see our Agreements and Effort collections.