Quotes About Enforcement

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.

Sometimes I think people live in a parallel universe when they say all we need are a few more regulations.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

Any reports of animal cruelty should be thoroughly investigated and those operators held accountable.

I'm going to have a very thoughtful and meaningful enforcement response to Superfund to make sure that we are achieving good outcomes for citizens across the country with respect to that entire portfolio of 1,336 or so sites.

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

Being absolute, and maintained by police force, a Government monopoly need not please its customers.

The Cherokee Nation took a case against Georgia to the US Supreme Court. With Chief Justice John Marshall writing for the majority, the Court ruled in favor of the Cherokees. Jackson ignored the Supreme Court, however, in effect saying that John Marshall had made his decision and Marshall would have to enforce it if he could, although he, Jackson, had an army while Marshall did not.

if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

The referee will now keep track of the time on the field and the shootouts have finally been banned.

Law enforcement personnel all over America are always among those first in line to aid in disasters.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires."

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

I'm allergic to perfect consensus. It has to be enforced somehow and once you sign the clade contract, they just tune your neurology until you agree. Boom, no conflict.

with the Bolshevik-dominated soviets around the country as their tool for enforcement—the first true totalitarian regime in history.

Moreover, in the exercise of His sovereignty God never enforces the responsibility of the creature; and unless we keep both of these steadily in view, we not only become lopsided, but lapse into real error. The grace of God must not be magnified to the beclouding of His righteousness, nor His sovereignty pressed to the exclusion of human accountability.