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I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up. -- Joe Arpaio
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
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
Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems. -- Jonathan Zittrain
We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. -- James Q. Wilson
The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function. -- Elliott Abrams
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
Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. "?Popular aphorism. -- Jack Vance
It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime. -- Rudy Giuliani
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 am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement. -- Donald Trump
It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here. -- Richard Jewell
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
I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor. -- Raymond Kelly
The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways. -- Eric Holder
The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control. -- Alan Keyes
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. -- Tim Cook
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
I've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies. -- Samuel L. Jackson
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. -- J. Edgar Hoover
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
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. -- Steve Chabot
War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation. -- John F. Kerry
I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive. -- Steve Clevenger
Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks. -- Preet Bharara
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
You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else. -- Phil Robertson
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
We need candidate schools to recruit more young African-Americans to run for office and more diverse law enforcement communities. -- Claire McCaskill
So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information. -- Rod Beckstrom
Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement. -- Ayelet Waldman
My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. -- Bob Odenkirk
The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA. -- Mike Pence
What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity, -- James Shaffer
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. -- Hillary Clinton
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
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. -- Robert Mueller
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. -- Dianne Feinstein
Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason. -- Eric Holder
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans. -- Morris Dees
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. -- Timothy Murphy
Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded. -- Jan Brewer
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement. -- Glenn Close
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
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
I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement. -- Rachel Dolezal
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
The greatness of nations is shown by their strict regard for human rights, rigid enforcement of the law without bias, and just administration of the affairs of life. -- Mary Burnett Talbert
Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement. -- Frank Wolf
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
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
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what's causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know whats causing violence in America - the damn drug laws. -- Michael Moriarty
I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much. -- Lou Ferrigno
...while a sane world would not employ 5-foot-tall grandmothers as law enforcement officers, a sane world would also not give full body-cavity searches to 5-foot-tall grandmothers at airports. -- Ann Coulter
The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime. -- Sal Albanese
The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists. -- Richard Lamm
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? -- Frank Herbert
If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other. -- Henry Cuellar
Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals. -- Robert Stack
We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and more when you see what's going on. -- Donald Trump
By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act. -- John Ashcroft
Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law enforcement easy for them in a liberal society. -- Edward Snowden
We are taking steps to fight the production of meth on our own soil through limiting access to precursor ingredients, supporting educational efforts and providing necessary resources to law enforcement. -- Greg Walden
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.
Terrorism is not a matter that can be left to law enforcement, with its deliberative process, built-in delays, and safeguards that may let the prisoner go free on procedural grounds. -- George P. Shultz
One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun. -- Niger Innis
A lot of Democrats ask and a lot of people ask, "Why is it necessary for people in this country, who are not in law enforcement, to have assault weapons?" -- Chuck Todd
First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se curity personnel. -- Wayne LaPierre
We're not all on the same page here. So most of us in the technology community are opposed to what we call backdoors that would allow law enforcement to tap in. -- Rod Beckstrom
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
When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty. -- Bobby Jindal

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