Enforcement Quotes - Page 2

• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

  Jay Inslee

  Rivers, Bird, Tree

  "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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• But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

  Janet Napolitano

  Country, Mean, Technology

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• We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

  Rick Larsen

  Commitment, Fighting, Epidemics

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• I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

  Paul Cellucci

  Agency, Law, America

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• One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

  Nick Lampson

  Children, Law, Issues

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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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• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  J. D. Hayworth

  War, Long, Guests

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• Unlicensed illegal immigrants drive on our roads and interstates without insurance, and there is little that our law enforcement officials can do to stop them.

  Spencer Bachus

  Law, Littles, Illegal

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• It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

  Leonard Boswell

  Law, Giving, Reform

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• We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.

  Marty Meehan

  Broken, Needs, Ethics

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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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• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  Chris Chocola

  Wall, Agency, Law

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• There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

  Hilary Rosen

  Real, Opportunity, Talking

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• The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

  Hilary Rosen

  Growth, Flip, Sides

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• The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

  Chris Cannon

  People, Immigration, Coherence

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• Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

  Harri Holkeri

  Kind, Operations, Difficult

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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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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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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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• 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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• Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

  Robin Hayes

  Children, Law, Community

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• I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.

  Patty Hearst

  War, Successful, Thinking

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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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• 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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