Quotes about Enforcement
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
- Ayn Rand
by promoting customs that are unlawful for us Romans to adopt or practice.”
- Acts 16:21
What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.
- Tony Campolo
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
- Grover Cleveland
Let me state the obvious. Illegal immigration is illegal, duh.
- John Kennedy
If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.
- Anonymous
Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
- George Washington
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon
- John F. Kennedy
As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.
- John Catsimatidis
You don't have to worry about the intellectuals, Wesley. Just put a few of them on the government payroll and send them out to preach precisely the sort of thing Mr. Kinnan mentioned: that the blame rests on the victims. Give them moderately comfortable salaries and extremely loud titles—and they'll forget their copyrights and do a better job for you than whole squads of enforcement officers.
- Ayn Rand
Worse yet, my administration was deporting undocumented workers at an accelerating rate. This wasn't a result of any directive from me, but rather it stemmed from a 2008 congressional mandate that both expanded ICE's budget and increased collaboration between ICE and local law enforcement departments in an effort to deport more undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
- Barack Obama