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Quotes About Enforcement

the 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
Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister? Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now. PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass. ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass. Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one. PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
They [the signers of the Declaration of Independence] did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right; so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended... It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.
~ Abraham Lincoln
B.R. Ambedkar believed the tale was not so much about Ram's character as it was about the unsustainability of the caste system that needed violence for its enforcement.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Grande is Mexico's harshest and most secure prison, and
~ Don Winslow
America's longest war is the war on drugs.
~ Don Winslow
This is what Mexican cops appreciate that American cops don't. We are partners, mi hermano Arturo, in the same enterprise. Comrades in the War on Drugs. We could not exist without each other.
~ Don Winslow
We now have so many regulations that everyone is guilty of some violation.
~ Donald Alexander
The law is what is read, not what is written.
~ Donald Kingsbury
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life.
~ Mary Burnett Talbert
To address this, we must wage a war on the militants. First, we must make it an offence, punishable by many years in jail, to ride a bicycle in anything other than what I like to call home clothes. Cycling shops selling gel for your bottom crack and outfits with padded gussets will be raided by the police and the owners prosecuted. This way, cyclists will be stripped of their uniforms and made to look like human beings.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
~ Jerry Seinfeld
The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to justify imperialism and slavery. They're categories intended for the enforcement of power. They were never intended to be psychologically satisfying in the way we want them to be.
~ Jess Row
that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush, not intelligence but the system, not freedom but drill. We became soldiers with eagerness and enthusiasm, but they have done everything to knock that out of us. After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole
~ Erich Maria Remarque
In the case of the movie High Noon, it is obvious that the viewers are not held by their intrinsic interest in the history of the American frontier, in law enforcement, or in noon trains.
~ Eugene L. Lowry
our capital authorization process itself is important, not the authorization itself. To prepare and justify a capital spending request, people go through a lot of soul-searching analysis and juggling, and it is this mental exercise that is valuable. The formal authorization is useful only because it enforces the discipline of the process.
~ Andrew S. Grove
In return for stopping at a red light, we count on other drivers to do the same thing, and we can drive through green lights. But for lawbreakers we need policemen, and with them, as with supervisors, we introduce overhead.
~ Andrew S. Grove
Your vision is a world where people are afraid to venture out after dark; not for fear of cut-throats, but of the guardians of public order. For, after all, the result of all great crackdowns on miscreants is always that the miscreants enter the ranks of the guardians of public order en masse.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
~ Angelo Codevilla
I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.
~ Evan McMullin