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Quotes About Enforce

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?
~ Marsha Blackburn
A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.
~ Trent Franks
We are a nation of laws and we must enforce our immigration laws.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.
~ Richard Cordray
The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim.
~ Guy Debord
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
~ H.L. Mencken
Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
Rules of taste enforce structures of power.
~ Susan Sontag
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.
~ Tom Rice
Bag the hands," Bosch said to him
~ Michael Connelly
The Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to deny or disparage other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.
~ Justice Antonin Scalia
My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.
~ Eric Schneiderman
We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.
~ Russ Feingold
As the political scientist Barry Weingast has noted, a state strong enough to enforce property rights can also take them away.6 On
~ Francis Fukuyama
Societies seek to enforce basic social rules universally, but a rule of law that protects citizens against arbitrary actions of the state itself is often initially applied only to a minority of privileged subjects. The law, in other words, protects the interests of the elites who are close to the state or who control the state, and in that sense law resembles what Socrates in Plato's Republic labels the "justice of a band of robbers.
~ Francis Fukuyama
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.
~ Stephen L. Carter
genuine power doesn't have to enforce it by example. Assumed power, on the other hand, requires folks' belief–it depends upon the victim's industry. Without that, it ... just sits in a room, referring to itself as authority.
~ Steve Aylett
The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the rule of the game and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.
~ Milton Friedman
The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game.
~ Milton Friedman
Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality…through faith.
~ Terry Goodkind
Our laws are very clear on a woman's reproductive health care. I will not only enforce those laws as attorney general, I will take the appropriate action against anyone who tries to interfere with a woman's right to choose her reproductive health care.
~ Dan Donovan
One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
~ Rand Paul
My thing is, when you put a bunch of rules on a tour, you have to hire three more people to enforce all the rules. So, with me, I want everyone to feel comfortable. It's a lot of little moving parts out here, and little hiccups will come. At the end of the day, the show's going to go on, and I want everybody to truly enjoy it.
~ Luke Bryan