Quotes About Enforcement

For the sake of law enforcement, Thumps told himself, it was probably a good thing that most of the criminals in the world were men.

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.

I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Every American has the duty to obey the law and the right to expect that the law will be enforced.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

Americans have the right to say what they believe. But with that right comes the responsibility to respect our neighbors, respect law enforcement, and obey the laws.

We will always obey the law. We will follow the rule of law.

When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law.

A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.

Capital punishment is symbolic of society's determination to enforce all of its laws. If we don't enforce the severest of our laws, the criminal mind might conclude (punishments of) other laws won't be imposed against them

On peut obliger le peuple à obéir. On ne peut pas le forcer à comprendre.

I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.

its police system was arranged to deal with blacks alone, and tacitly assumed that every white man was ipso facto a member of that police.

If the goal is uprooting millennia of traditional sexual morality, a need exists for the means and the ruthlessness to enforce the uprooting. The process doesn't need to be vulgar or brutish. But it does need to be thorough—and in an advanced media culture, that can be achieved by reshaping public perceptions. And so what we face now is what the Wall Street Journal described as "the new intolerance.

Who else but that oracle of American liberalism, the New York Times, could run the puzzled headline: "Crime Keeps On Falling, but Prisons Keep On Filling." But? How about this wild theory: If you lock up the criminals, crime declines.

What the critics don't seem to recognize is that the Paris agreement itself was a huge failure. It contained no uniform commitments and no enforcement provisions. Sure, the whole world signed. But onto what? A voluntary set of vaporous promises. China pledged to 'achieve the peaking of [carbon dioxide] emissions around 2030.' Meaning that they rise for another 13 years.

On May 31, 1870, invoking the new amendments as authority, Congress passed the Enforcement Act, which made racist terrorism a federal offense. To help put it into effect, Grant and Congress created the Department of Justice, with authority over all federal civil and criminal cases.

Our laws as we support them now are slow, wasteful, cumbrous systems, which require a special caste to interpret and another to enforce; wherein the average citizen knows nothing of the law, and cares only to evade it when he can, obey it when he must.

IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

Representative Fiorello La Guardia responded, "I maintain this law will be almost impossible of enforcement. And if this law fails to be enforced-as it certainly will be, as it is drawn-it will create contempt and disregard for law all over the country.