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Quotes About Enforcement

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
~ Katharine Hepburn
The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on - I am not too sure.
~ H. L. Mencken
What Mencken most strongly objected to in religion was not the expression of nonsensical views—these could easily be combated by rebuttal from the other side—but the inveterate tendency of religion to seek the enforcement of its views by the power of the government.
~ H.L. Mencken
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
~ H.L. Mencken
Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.
~ Hanif Kureishi
executive branch of this particular government was not the party but the police, whose "operational activities were not regulated through party channels";
~ Hannah Arendt
Only an approach combining tough law enforcement with physical, moral and educational revitalization of high-crime areas offers the prospect of a safer America.
~ William Barr
We used tough methods to show what's wrong and what's right. Against those who didn't understand, we led a tough and even cruel struggle.
~ Ramzan Kadyrov
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
~ Kamala Harris
There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.
~ Brian Urlacher
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
~ Jeff Miller
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
~ Mel Carnahan
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
~ Marty Meehan
We must find a better way to enforce the Equalities Act, rather than require the injured party to sue a business, and we must, through legislation and legal action, get tougher on those organisations and industries who ignore or, worse still, exploit disabled people.
~ Penny Mordaunt
Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.
~ Russell Pearce
Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
~ David K. Shipler
If we in fact were to begin enforcing the law against people who are hiring people who are here illegally, we would go a long way towards eliminating the problem.
~ Tom Tancredo
In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.
~ Chuck Berry
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
~ Ron Wyden
Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.
~ Chris Chocola
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
I do think we need to hold countries accountable who violate trade agreements that are already in place. We need to get stronger about enforcement, that in the future if we strike a trade agreement, toughening up labor standards and environmental standards and enforcement standards is something we absolutely need to do.
~ Julian Castro
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
In foreign countries such as Italy, the government puts strict-looking speed limit signs everywhere, but nobody ever sees them because light does not travel fast enough to catch the Italian drivers.
~ Dave Barry