Law Enforcement Quotes - Page 6

• If somebody's gonna smoke a joint in their house and not do anybody else any harm, then perhaps there are other things that our cops should be looking at to engage in and try to clean up some of the other problems that we have in society.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Marijuana, Law

  "Tea Party = Pot Party?" by Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. October 1, 2010.

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• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Lying, Marijuana, Law

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• The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• I shortly will introduce legislation banning the sale, manufacture or possession of handguns (with exceptions for law enforcement and licensed target clubs)... . It is time to act. We cannot go on like this. Ban them!

  John Chafee

  Gun, Law, Clubs

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• The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery

  Charles Nqakula

  Soccer, Agency, Law

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• It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in fact in all the cases it was really a fluke ... We find persistent wrongdoing on the part of law enforcement. It's really sheer luck that those convicted of these [capital] crimes were exonerated in the end.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Illinois, Law, Luck

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• As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

  John R. Dunne

  New York, Regret, Favors

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• For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

  James Frey

  Believe, Years, Punishment

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• I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

  Gil Garcetti

  Cost, Death Penalty, Penalties

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• We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

  Timothy Murphy

  Technology, Government, Law

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• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Jon Porter

  Talking, Law, People

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• First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns
  in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se
  curity personnel.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Zero, Believe, School

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• When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Law, Liberty, Enforcement

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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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, Enforcement

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• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Roger Wicker

  Mean, Agency, Law

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• We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Law, Enforcement

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• 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.

  Jon Kyl

  Commitment, Law, Issues

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• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Law, Police, Soldier

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.1117, Best Books on

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• By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

  John Ashcroft

  Wall, Law, Community

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• The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

  George W. Bush

  Law, America, Enforcement

  "Supreme Court Nominee Visits President and Lawmakers; President Bush Speaks in Baltimore About Renewal of Patriot Act, Supreme Court Nomination". "CNN Live Today", edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

  Jeanne Woodford

  Tonight, Answers, World

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• The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

  Robert M. Morgenthau

  Flames, Safety, Effort

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• Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.

  Robert M. Morgenthau

  Dirty, Fighting, Secret

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• I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' And I said, 'I don't feel good.' And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she says, 'What's the matter?' And I told her. I said, 'I just thought about that execution that I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved in.' And what it was, something triggered within, and it just, everybody - all of these executions all sprung forward.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Two, Wife

  "In America; Inside the Death House" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2000.

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