Quotes About Enforcement

For whatever reason, speed enforcement in the U.S. is a bigger deal than elsewhere in the world. In Europe, police seem to be more concerned about preventing accidents and less consumed with the passion to write speeding tickets.

The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Nobody's going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.

Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?

I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.

I got pulled over by a cop, and he said, 'do you know the speed limit here is 55 miles per hour?'. So I said, 'oh, that's OK, I'm not going that far.'