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Quotes About Enforcement

Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.
~ Eugene Scalia
I will end the lawlessness that's destroying our environment. I will take polluters to court, not to lunch.
~ Walter F. Mondale
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.
~ Grover Norquist
I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.
~ Malik Yoba
The upshot of the Nixon tapes case was that any president is going to have an extremely hard time resisting a request from a law enforcement officer.
~ Neal Katyal
This administration, this agency, the very agency charged with enforcing Obamacare, systematically targeted groups that came into existence because they opposed Obamacare - and they started the targeting the very month, March 2010, that Obamacare came into law - expects us to believe it is the work of two rogue agents in Cincinnati.
~ Jim Jordan
Targets don't fight crime.
~ Theresa May
Violence, as it is for the mafia and most other criminal organizations, was bad for pirate business. By doing battle with prey, pirates risked damage to their own ships and injury to their crews. It also made them bigger targets for law enforcement.
~ Robert Kurson
Targets don't fight crime; they hinder the fight against crime.
~ Theresa May
Quite rightly, the public expects to see forces serving their communities, not chasing arbitrary targets.
~ Theresa May
Since the 1970s, California has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act.
~ Andrew R. Wheeler
A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
~ Viktor Orban
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
~ Chuck Grassley
The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
~ Dana Boente
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
~ Tom Daschle
I refuse to watch illegal aliens be unlawfully flown and relocated to our beautiful states on the taxpayer's dollar. This is why I introduced the No-Fly for Illegals Act.
~ Madison Cawthorn
Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.
~ George Soros
FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program, known as ViCAP.
~ Rick Mofina
Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry's
~ Rinku Sen
Sorry son of a bitch. No wonder some people criticized small-town law enforcement
~ Rita Herron
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
~ Robert Brault
Third, and finally, if you want people to believe the system is fair and effective, it's essential to be tough on the most powerful, profitable, and well-known jerks. If you enforce the rule only with the weak performers, people who are easily replaceable, or who deliver bad news and have the gumption to disagree with superiors—and you allow powerful assholes to run roughshod over anyone they please—people will smell your hypocritical bullshit from a mile away.
~ Robert I. Sutton
For a citizen who abides by the law, the law is distant and difficult to find. For those who reject and violate it, the law emerges from its musty sepulchers and goes in search of the transgressor.
~ Robert Sheckley
law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton