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It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. -- Rudy Giuliani
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. -- J. Edgar Hoover
You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else. -- Phil Robertson
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. -- Mary Frances Berry
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. -- Saxby Chambliss
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. -- Robert Kennedy
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get. -- Barbara Boxer
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world. -- Brad Thor
No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come. -- Judy Biggert
Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. -- J. Edgar Hoover
We cannot make the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States someone who has risked America's secrets and lied about this to Congress and the American people about it day after day after day. -- Chris Christie
In politics, purity is the enemy of victory -- Haley Barbour
We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair. -- George Gascon
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. -- Keith Richards
It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here. -- Richard Jewell
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated -- George Gascon
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. -- Steve Chabot
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? -- Will Rogers
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any. -- Mae West
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. -- Calvin Coolidge
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
I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool. -- Eric Holder
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
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims. -- Gil Garcetti
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals. -- Scott Harshbarger
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would less capable of protecting our nation. -- Leonard Boswell
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
In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends. -- Dirk Kempthorne
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away? -- Vijay Kumar
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. -- Paul Cellucci
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
Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes. -- Loretta Lynch
Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world. -- David Morrell
The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. -- Richard Armitage
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. -- Teju Cole
Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole. -- Robert Falcon Scott
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country. -- Barack Obama
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal crisis in recent memory... it would be crazy not to consider the fact that it will add as much as $1 billion over the next five years simply to keep the death penalty on the books. -- John Van de Kamp
When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations. -- Chris DeWolfe
The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right. -- Scott Turow
I am very pro law enforcement. -- Robert Stack
Law enforcement in America is a force for good. -- Mike Pence
We have to bring back respect to law enforcement. -- Donald Trump
I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up. -- Joe Arpaio
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. "?Popular aphorism. -- Jack Vance
The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system -- Killer Mike
It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. -- Eric Holder
I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan. -- Pauley Perrette
The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency. -- Hank Johnson
I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor. -- Raymond Kelly
I am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement. -- Donald Trump
People shouldn't be afraid to bring up issues of bias in law enforcement. -- Tim Kaine
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You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem. -- Bill McCollum
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. -- Alan Keyes
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. -- Eric Holder
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. -- Tim Cook
I've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies. -- Samuel L. Jackson
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapon -- John F. Kennedy
Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend. -- George H. W. Bush
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. -- Dorothy Height
To give law enforcement the additional tools it needs to track down terror here at home. -- George W. Bush
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient. -- Jan C. Ting
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience. -- Harold H. Greene
Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work. -- Michael Trucco
We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism. -- Barack Obama
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks. -- Preet Bharara
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive. -- Steve Clevenger
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation. -- John F. Kerry
Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement. -- Loretta Lynch
So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information. -- Rod Beckstrom
My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. -- Bob Odenkirk
We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities. -- Claire McCaskill
What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity, -- James Shaffer
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers. -- Todd Tiahrt
The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA. -- Mike Pence
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. -- Robert Mueller
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. -- Hillary Clinton
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement. -- Ayelet Waldman
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. -- Eric Holder
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans. -- Morris Dees
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. -- Dianne Feinstein
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement. -- Glenn Close
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. -- Timothy Murphy
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
Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. -- Jan Brewer
I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement. -- Rachel Dolezal
I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force. -- Neill Blomkamp
When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term. -- Ronald Kessler
In a Trump administration all immigration laws will be enforced, will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. -- Donald Trump
We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe. -- Debbie Stabenow
Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century. -- George W. Bush
Some of the bravest and the best men of all the world, certainly in law enforcement, have made their contributions while they were undercover. -- Thomas Foran
[Donald Trump] will appoint an attorney general, who will send very clear messages about how law enforcement is to be pursued in this country. -- Chris Christie
The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. -- Ron Wyden
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation. -- Barbara Olson
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
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world. -- Jeffery Deaver
Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers. -- Jerry Costello
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
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
No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn't appropriate. -- Marco Rubio
Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together. -- Robert Stack
We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed. -- Barack Obama
I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains. -- Malik Yoba
Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does. -- James Langevin
Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them. -- Patricia Arquette
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
We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies. -- Sergei Lavrov
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
We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process. -- Henry Cuellar
In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement. -- Robert Mueller
Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs. -- Barton Gellman
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists -- Mike Pence

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