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Quotes About Enforcement

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
~ Barack Obama
As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state's chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of law, and that means fighting violence and oppression wherever it exists, especially violence against the poor and vulnerable.
~ Josh Hawley
My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I'm going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is.
~ Eric Schneiderman
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
~ Rene Descartes
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
~ Earl Warren
The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it's a foul that you basically can't let go.
~ Tim Donaghy
We need to learn that in the Champions League, the referees are vigilant and quick to whistle.
~ Louis van Gaal
I check into the game and the ref cleans the whistle off, 'OK 98s coming in.' I'm one of those players that's physical and I use my fouls.
~ Jason Collins
Rooting out white supremacists and right-wing extremists is a challenge that local law enforcement agencies, and even the U.S. military, is facing all across this nation.
~ Alex Padilla
In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.
~ Ato Essandoh
This is part of the core media strategy out of Trump's White House: to use federal troops to bolster his sagging poll data. And it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials.
~ Ted Wheeler
Retailers have an important part to play in preventing knife crime - enforcing age restrictions and displaying knives safely is crucial.
~ Theresa May
By preventing the federal government from removing known criminal aliens, we allow our country to be a safe haven for criminals.
~ Kirstjen Nielsen
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
~ Montesquieu
It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
~ Adam Cohen
We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.
~ John Shadegg
In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.
~ Dave Reichert
As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the laws that protect our people from harm. But another fundamental part of my job is to seek to advance the basic American principle of equal justice under law.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Attrition through enforcement is simply the self-evident principle that if you ratchet up the level of enforcement and make it more difficult to break the law, fewer people will continue to break the law.
~ Kris Kobach
Law and order is the first and topmost priority.
~ Rajnath Singh
Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.
~ Eric Schneiderman
What we have to do is make sure there are prison places for those sent to prison by the courts and we will continue to do that regardless of how many people are sent to prison.
~ Crispin Blunt
The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
~ Jack Herer
The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.
~ Adam Cohen