Quotes About Enforcement

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike that the rule of law is still in effect in troubled neighborhoods and that the police are watching.

I got a big truck, just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take 'em home myself.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

Law enforcement officers must carry out their sacred duty to protect and serve in a way that earns the trust of our communities.

Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

The people of this country who want their laws enforced and respected, and respected by all, and who want their border secured, are not racists.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

Are you saying the INS should've taken the boat out of U.S. waters before sinking it?

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

Your grand plan sounds more like 1940s Germany to me. What exactly do you plan to do with people who refuse to register?

Seven thousand arrests for alcohol possession in New York City between 1921 and 1923 (when enforcement was more or less openly abandoned) resulted in only seventeen convictions.

You can't legislate sobriety.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

If I became president now I would immediately pass a law that makes every citizen a policeman or a soldier.

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.