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Quotes About Enforcement

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
~ George Washington
Trudeau: Yes, well, there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed, but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me. . . ."
~ Bible
Law is a bottomless pit.
~ J. Arbuthnot
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.
~ Herbert Hoover
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
~ William Shakespeare
You will be expected to obey orders, or this appointment can and will be terminated. Again, at the discretion of the primary. We run this by the book. I've always wondered. How many pages are in that book of yours? And smart mouthing to the primary can result in disciplinary action. Darling. You know how that excites me.
~ J.D. Robb
Religion was a riddle to her. Believe this, and only this, because we say so. If you don't you're buying a one-way ticket to everlasting Hell.
~ J.D. Robb
A good cop, a smart cop, closes cases and locks up the bad guys.
~ J.D. Robb
A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
~ Jack London
The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter's rules, that needs to be implemented every time.
~ Brianna Wu
FinCEN directs financial institutions to file suspicious activity reports (SARs) to inform law enforcement of certain types of cyber-enabled crime. As the agency charged with protecting the United States from financial crime, FinCEN's guidance does not deem financial institutions who process such transactions to be involved in a criminal activity.
~ Perianne Boring
We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.
~ Jim Bunning
State constitutions typically provide that the state first has to service its debt, then make it pension payments, and then pay for services. What we don't know is whether that order will be enforced. And ultimately, the busted state is going to be looking to the federal government for a bailout. Think Greece, but on a much bigger scale.
~ Eugene Fama
Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by the rules. But it is a limited role. Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.
~ John Roberts
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
~ John F. Kennedy
To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.
~ J. Norman Collie
The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.
~ Jerry Brown
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law
~ Thomas Hobbes
I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.
~ Ted Nugent
In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.
~ Paul Watson
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves.
~ Theo James
Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.
~ Tom Stoppard