Enforcement Quotes - Page 15

• Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

  Robert Nozick

  Rights, Protection, Justified

  Anarchy, State, and Utopia preface (1974)

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• We have to have a strong law enforcement in America. So we do not go abroad in the search of war, we really are searching for peace, but it is peace through strength.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, War, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, War, Doors

  "How the Drug War Fuels a New Racial Caste System in America". Interview With Mark Karlin, img.alternet.org. August 2, 2012.

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• In the war on drugs, state and state law enforcement agencies have been rewarded in cash by the federal government - through programs like the Edward Byrne Memorial Grant program - for the sheer numbers of people arrested for drug offenses.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Numbers, Agency

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are people have grown up with implicit trust. Law enforcement, you name it. It's all gone. There's doubt about everything now. And this is not accidental.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, Names, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Due to a Supreme Court decision, if these violent offenders cannot be sent home, our law enforcement officers have to release them into your communities.

  Donald Trump

  Home, Law, Community

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• Will this massive outcry [about pollution] continue long enough to have effective results? Will federal and state laws be enacted with effective enforcement clauses? Will people be concerned long enough to pay the bill through higher prices? Will towns tole lost jobs when it proves too costly to clean obsolete plants?... I think so, but it sure won't be as easy as the present outcry and political oratory suggest. The answers to preserving a livable environment are not all simple, and some of the nuts now pushing simplistic cure-alls won't help bring about any lasting solutions.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Nature, Jobs, Thinking

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• If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.

  Darynda Jones

  Law, Physics, Unstoppable

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.606, St. Martin's Press

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• We've stood up for the men and women of law enforcement, directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Agency, Law

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• But we're going to work on education, we're going to work on - going to stop - try to stop the crime, great law enforcement officials. We're not going to try to - we're going to stop crime. But it's very important to me. But this isn't Donald Trump that divided a nation.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Important, Trying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We're going to support the men and women of law enforcement.

  Donald Trump

  Men, Law, Support

  "Facebook staff reportedly pushed to delete Trump's 'hate speech' posts - as it happened" by Scott Bixby, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2016.

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• To make matters worse, federal drug forfeiture laws allow state and local law enforcement agencies to keep, for their own use, up to 80 percent of the cash, cars, and homes seized from suspected drug offenders. You don't even have to be convicted of a drug offense; if you're just suspected of a drug offense, law enforcement has the right to keep the cash they find on you or in your home, or seize your car if drugs are allegedly found in it or "suspected" of being transported in the vehicle.

  Michelle Alexander

  Home, Agency, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater. What do we worry about? We worry about our schools. We worry about our public recreational facilities. We worry about our law enforcement and our public housing. All of the things that bear upon our standard of living are in the public sector.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  School, Law, Worry

  Source: progressive.org

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• Well, there are certain pockets of improvement. The one that I think is most important is that state and local law enforcement levels have started to do a lot more educative efforts within their organizations to understand the kind of threat we're facing. They've given up on the federal level.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Law, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe that Streamline should be part of our toolbox of things that we use at the border. And there needs to be a variety of things that we use at the border to get the most effective enforcement strategy. And so really it's a resource issue more than anything else.

  Janet Napolitano

  Believe, Issues, Immigration

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• If you look at the way Donald Trump has treated law enforcement, if you look at the way he's treated the military, this is a man who fully understands the burden of leadership and the responsibility he has as the commander in chief.

  Sebastian Gorka

  Military, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Many people don't realize that financial incentives have been built into the drug war that guarantee that law enforcement will continue to arrest extraordinary numbers of people, particularly in poor communities of color, for minor drug offenses that get ignored on the other side of town.

  Michelle Alexander

  War, Numbers, Color

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

  Jeb Bush

  Ice, Immigration, Disappear

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• The law enforcement authorities have got a fairly good idea of who are these principal criminals. Who are the people, for instance, who receive the cell phones? When a young person goes and snatches a cell phone, there's someone who is sitting somewhere who receives this. Lots of this kind of crime.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Phones, Cells, Law

  Source: www.gov.za

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• I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Years, Law

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts: then the coalition of Pilnitz, outlawing our commerce with France, and the British enforcement of the outlawry. In your day French depredations; in mine English, and the Berlin and Milan decrees: now the English orders of council, and the piracies they authorize. When these shall be over, it will the impressment of our seamen, or something else; and so we have gone on, and so we shall go on, puzzled and prospering beyond example in the history of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Order, Example

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

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• It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Marijuana, Law, Jail

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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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• This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property... Some of these provisions place more power in the hands of law enforcement than our Founding Fathers could have dreamt and severely compromises the civil liberties of law-abiding Americans. This bill, while crafted with good intentions, is rife with constitutional infringements I could not support.

  Butch Otter

  Father, Hands, Law

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• 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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