Enforcement Quotes - Page 3

• Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars in revenue annually.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Dollars, Cost

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• I am very pro law enforcement.

  Robert Stack

  Law, Law Enforcement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

  William Howard Taft

  Law, Presidential, Important

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.125, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

  Jesse Ventura

  Jobs, Law, Issues

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.33, Villard

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• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion". Book by Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo (p. 134), 2003.

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• Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Law, Community, Division

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• Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

  Allen West

  Thinking, Law, Borders

  "West on Issues Facing America". "Your World Cavut" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2010.

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

  Bill McCollum

  Law, Drug, Problem

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• Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities.

  Jim Gerlach

  Law, Community, September 11

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• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

  Glenn Close

  Views, Law, Shields

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. June 13, 2005.

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• The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

  Major Owens

  Ada, Firsts, Heavy

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  Barbara Boxer

  Law, Safety, Police

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• Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation.

  Leonard Boswell

  Military, Hard Work, Sacrifice

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• Although our war on drugs must be fortified with the best laws, enforcement efforts and resources, we would not be successful without your individual commitment to this cause.

  Mel Carnahan

  War, Commitment, Successful

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• It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Law, Police, Crime

  "The Sicilian Connection" by Peter Stoler, content.time.com. October 15, 1984.

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• The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Song, Children

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.115, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  Barbara Olson

  Law, Life And Death, Political

  Barbara Olson (2003). “The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

  Jeff Miller

  Strong, Believe, Book

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• You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

  Christopher Meloni

  Baby, Jobs, Cat

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• 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.

  Robert Kennedy

  Law, Community, Police

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Law, Drug

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• But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

  Robert Mueller

  Law, Effort, September 11

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• This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

  Gary Johnson

  Country, Real, Marijuana

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• The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, War, Fighting

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