Top 414 Enforce Quotes & Sayings

Don't ever have a rule that you won't enforce with your best player.

My job is to enforce the laws of Florida.

If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

If the Biden administration won't enforce the law, let's empower those that will.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.

We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

My administration is going to enforce all trade violations against any country that cheats.

It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the ones that already exist. I must point out that doubling the size of the criminal code will not matter if the Clinton-Gore administration refuses to vigorously enforce these laws.

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

Which [the cyber hacking] is why one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules and to enforce all laws relating to the handling of classified information.

I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards, and perhaps for good reason, perhaps for bad reason, but anyway this is the problem we face in pluralistic society, that not necessarily every standard that every church tries to enforce upon the society is from the society's standpoint a good standard.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

The laws of decency enforce themselves.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land.

We have to enforce the individual mandate. We're losing a lot of money that is not coming into the system.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

You can go ahead and break a law, and you can come to a sanctuary city, and they wouldn't enforce the laws.

It is a mistake to assume that the law should always enforce morality.

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

The Supreme Court has made its decision, now let them enforce it.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

I'm supposed to enforce the laws of the land. The law of Florida is that if you're a noncitizen, you don't vote in these races.

We have never had the will to enforce the immigration laws. What you see is what you'll continue to get.

It's not so much the attorney general's job to decide what laws to enforce. We should do our jobs and enforce laws effectively as we're able.

Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.

I did vote to defund the Obama program that defers deporting the so-called DREAMers, because that was the president's decision, and the president shouldn't unilaterally get to decide what laws to enforce or not enforce.

A regulator is supposed to create and enforce a standard.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.

Immigration law doesn`t exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work site, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else. That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforce the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world. We will enforce all of our immigration laws!

No more chances, Golden Eyes. You’re mine and I’ll draw blood to enforce my claim.

It is not for me to enforce my morals on others.

A nation that will not enforce its laws has no claim to the respect and allegiance of its people.