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I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion. -- Joe Arpaio
Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can't function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty. But total liberty leads to various forms of aristocracy and decay. Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay. However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy. -- Peter J. Carroll
The police must obey the law while enforcing the law. -- Earl Warren
The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy. -- Michael Moriarty
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. -- Victor Hugo
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. -- Robert Collier
Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs. -- Charley Pride
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances. -- Richard Mentor Johnson
The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana. -- Ted Cruz
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. -- Kristin Armstrong
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want. -- Eliot Ness
However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. -- John Boyd Orr
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. -- Marvin Olasky
Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. -- Ronald Reagan
Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences. -- Michael Arrington
We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire. -- Jennifer Granholm
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. -- John Stuart Mill
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. -- Jesse Ventura
Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves. -- F. Sionil Jose
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands. -- Pat Toomey
The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws. -- J. D. Hayworth
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. -- Rene Cassin
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition. -- John Boehner
The euro zone must strike for a better governance structure, and there is no alternative to that. Euro zone countries must either develop an exit mechanism for troubled members, or it should embrace a closer political union: an effective governance structure that is capable of enforcing rules. -- Lou Jiwei
My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice. -- J. Tillman
The government should be actively enforcing the high road. -- Jared Bernstein
You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours. -- Bryant H. McGill
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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing... -- Robert Collier
But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. -- Johannes Rau
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According to Democrats it's racist, jingoistic and xenophobic to support enforcing America's immigration laws. What's next for Democrats, labeling heterosexual sex as homophobic? -- Ted Nugent
Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility -- John McCain
Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions. -- George W. Bush
There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether. -- L. Neil Smith
We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules. -- Barack Obama
Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. -- Ferdinand Marcos
Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting. -- Brian Eno
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Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion. -- Robert Winston
Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards. -- Edward Snowden
The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict? -- Veronica Roth
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die. -- Rowan Williams
There seems to be no way to save wildness from human intrusion without establishing and enforcing rules and regulations that are themselves intrusions on what, by definition, are meant to be areas outside humanity's control. -- J. Meredith Neil

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