Enforcement Quotes - Page 3

• But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

  Robert Mueller

  Thinking, Years, Law

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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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• No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, War, Fighting

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  Barack Obama

  War, Police, Succeed

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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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'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Police, Law Enforcement, Policemen

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

  Mae West

  Law, Long, Cracks

  Every Day's a Holiday (motion picture) (1937)

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• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Police

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• I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Keys

  "Former Vice President Dick Cheney on 'Hannity'". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. December 9, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Family, Law, Problem

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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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• 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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• 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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• In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.

  Robert Mueller

  Years, Law, Numbers

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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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