Enforce Quotations

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

The political Right likes to champion individual rights and individual liberty, but it has also worked to enforce morality in relation to abortion, gambling, and homosexuality.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

Washington should revive international efforts begun during the Clinton administration to pressure countries with dangerously loose banking regulations to adopt and enforce stricter rules.

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.

You can't put the Hollywood sign in a movie without paying them. That is a landmark in L.A. I'm sorry, remove it from our skyline, then. You know? How dare they. That should be public domain, right? But it's privately owned, and they enforce that. They sue people. If you see it in the movie, they've paid for that.

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

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

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the power of the state to enforce those preferences.

Laws and mechanisms originally meant to enforce copyright, protect children and fight online crime are abused to silence or intimidate political critics.

No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let's end the fear. Let's enforce existing gun laws.

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

When it comes to reforming MPs' expenses, the answer is simply to keep it simple: show us receipts as they're claimed and, where there are abuses, enforce the law.

In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

If we don't enforce laws of the historic district and allow things to slide, then it's unfair to homeowners that live in the area and do obey the rules. We don't have anything to defend. We are just doing our job.

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Some communities allow dogs in restaurants but they're breaking the law and the state decides to enforce it in some cases but not others. It's inconsistent.

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Somebody figured it out / we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

Only a police officer can enforce handicapped rules. She has no permission to enforce handicapped rules.

On Feb. 13, 2003, the Congress passed the Do Not Call Implementation Act, which authorized the FTC to collect fees from sellers and telemarketers to implement and enforce the provisions relating to the do-not-call registry,

No officer of the company has to sign or attest that the information in it is correct and there is no authority at the federal government level to enforce it. My best advice is if you can open and run your own business, do that instead of owning a franchise. Check out our website and see the potential problems with franchise agreement provisions and the problems that franchisees face.

NTP will seek to reinstate the injunction, ... And RIM will seek to enforce its proffered settlement. NTP is confident about its position on both of those issues.

NTP will seek to reinstate the injunction. And R.I.M. will seek to enforce its proffered settlement. NTP is confident about its position on both of those issues.

NTP will seek to reinstate the injunction. And RIM will seek to enforce its proffered settlement. NTP is confident about its position on both of those issues.

People won't think it will be enforced. It's already hard enough to enforce cruelty to animals.

New Jersey is entitled to the full amount because we did diligently enforce our statute.

If we continue to roam, with no strength to enforce the law right at the beginning of our independence, by the time corruption develops deep roots it will be most difficult to combat it,

If we do not enforce that, with the world along with us, then what we do is we make a mockery of the efficacy of the U.N. in the future,

If we're compelled to enforce our order, we intend to do so in a reasoned, measured way,

If they don't take that, we'll seek to enforce the injunction.

When you combine this speech with the raids of last week and the talk in the Senate of adding enforcement money to the supplemental, they're saying you can enforce the border and have a guest worker program at the same time, in tandem.

Military force is always this nation's last option, ... Yet if force becomes necessary to disarm Iraq and enforce the will of the United Nations, if force becomes necessary to secure our country and to keep the peace, America will act deliberately, America will act decisively, and America will act victoriously with the world's greatest military.

Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

Minority investors, which would be all American investors, just don't have any leverage to enforce management to act in the best interest of shareholders.

Lucas is in a unique position himself to create these rules and enforce them. He paid for the entire film himself, and he and Fox are just trying to maintain absolute control over the film.

Sexual harassment is against the law and will not be tolerated in the lending industry. The lawsuit filed today is part of a continuing effort by the Department of Justice to enforce every aspect of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

We've never had a definition of dangerous dogs. We do now, and we intend to enforce it, ... We have far too many bites, and too many of these dogs are being used for fighting. It's dangerous.

The only thing that convinced them to obey the law was when we hired (attorney) David Carrier - 'We are going to sue you' - that got their attention. I've found that virtually nobody wants to obey the law and that nobody wants to enforce the law.

I encourage you to pass this law and also make sure you enforce it after it's been passed.

Give the sheriffs and our border patrol and law enforcement the money and troops they need to get out there and enforce law and order.

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?

For the sheriff to come in and enforce the law, enforce speeds, it has to be legally posted, and the rules have to be met.

But they do have the power to enforce federal criminal laws. So if you make unlawful presence a crime, they'll be able to enforce civil immigration law. They could charge immigrants or just transfer them to DHS, who could deport them.

China has not lived up to its responsibility to effectively enforce intellectual property rights.

Have two hours free, but heavily enforce it.

We support a vigorous program of enforcement by state and federal officials to ensure that our products are used safely. Today's actions by the state of Florida demonstrate that regulatory officials continue to monitor and enforce the nation's rigorous pesticide laws. By following EPA's rules, we are confident that both public health and the environment are protected. This is proof that the regulatory system works and violators will not be tolerated.

I agree it's a definitive risk and I can attest to the intellectual prowess. With respect to protecting IP, that's a hard problem. We've had people come here, learn things, and take that back with them. One thing that says, very simplistically, is that you need to patent your ideas and enforce the patents that are part of your industry or company. Beyond that, one mechanism would be to look for partnering firms in China, as opposed to just putting up barriers. In some ways you look at the barriers as almost trade policies back early in the twentieth century. Perhaps we need to think of something a bit different there.

If we are going to enforce the laws to find the 1,000 federal gun dealers to trace the 57 percent of the nation's guns used in crime, we need more ATF agents,

If the state comes out with a code, who is going to enforce it? Little League doesn't want the state to tell them it has to enforce it. We barely have enough volunteers to run the program.

If those of us in positions of leadership do our jobs to make and keep our companies competitive; and if all of us demand that our elected officials do their part to enact and enforce policies that will level the playing field, there's no doubt in my mind that we can achieve the competitiveness of Japan, or the improved energy self-sufficiency of Brazil.

If the fight was here, Floyd would have been disqualified, end of story. He may have been winning the fight but what his uncle did was against the rules. We can't only enforce the rules when they suit us.

He will enforce the laws, no matter what his personal opinion may be.

We can enforce an order from another state.

He has the moral authority to be able to enforce that. In the absence of this 14th Dalai Lama ... I think the picture would be much more uncertain.

He has refused to honor this judgment. We intend to enforce it.

We try to enforce the dress code all evening.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

I was disappointed that the elected officials at the meeting seemed unconcerned with the obvious illegality of providing off-the-books jobs for illegal aliens. Instead, they should be passing legislation to provide training for local and county police departments to enforce our immigration laws.

Look at my own case: I am the father in my family. It is my duty to enforce the Shariah in my family and I do so with an iron hand.

Staples instituted this policy to help enforce the warning label on the can. Our cashiers are prompted and reminded to ask for identification when a customer goes to buy a canned air product.

Recent news stories about the behind-the-scenes maneuvers to defeat Internet gambling legislation only emphasizes the need for Congress to act now. Law enforcement agencies and financial institutions must be provided with the commonsense tools necessary to enforce laws addressing this illegal activity.

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

Our Overfishing Scorecard shows that when managers prevent overcapitalization of fishing fleets and set and enforce responsible limits based on science, they can make progress in ending overfishing and rebuilding stocks. However, when fishing is allowed to exceed scientific recommendations, fisheries managers are putting our future at risk.

Our message to Iowa cattle producers has been clear. Producers were given a five-year enforcement moratorium to fully comply with the law, and we expect them to meet the commitments they made when they entered into the agreement. When the Iowa Plan ends, EPA will enforce the Clean Water Act against feedlots that are polluting the nation's waters.

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

I'm hoping we could develop a code fair to everyone throughout the city, but more importantly we need to have backbone to enforce whatever we do adopt.

It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.

Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.

Over the past decade we've seen the biggest influx of immigrants in our nation's history and at the same time a decline in resources for wage and hour enforcement at the state and federal level. These centers have become a safety net that's tried to enforce the laws.

Our primary objective is to provide the police department with the information they need to enforce the ordinance fairly. The administration and council must provide the department with tools, definitions and intent so they know how to enforce the ordinance.

I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

I think that the funding should be phased down, ... No question there should be very strong guidelines. There's supposed to be guidelines now. But certainly we need to enforce strong guidelines, and phase down that funding for the NEA.

I think that the funding should be phased down. No question there should be very strong guidelines. There's supposed to be guidelines now. But certainly we need to enforce strong guidelines, and phase down that funding for the NEA.

I think it's pretty ridiculous that they're trying to enforce these ridiculous new laws. They're trying to take away our civil rights guaranteed to us by the United States Constitution.

I think we're three deep at linebacker. You might see nine different guys out there. I like the idea of fresh infantry. If you're high pressure like we are it can allow you to enforce your will on the other team. We have experience and we have athleticism, and we have a blend of both.

we need an attorney general that will enforce the law and a Justice Department that will do the same thing.

We never really found a true solution to the R1 issue. We said we're going to enforce it more, but that doesn't solve the problem that you're trying to fight bad behavior with a law that singles out students and tries to keep them from living somewhere, ... Until we start talking about solutions and not treatments, it's going to be an issue again whether we like it or not.

We've tried everything we can, and will continue to enforce the law.

The problem is, they don't want to enforce the ethics rules, and they don't have any interest in enforcing ethics rules.

The president has made it clear we will enforce the no-fly zones vigorously. The Iraqi violations are at their own peril.

We are determined to maintain and enforce the highest standards of ethical conduct by FBI employees,

I would like to reemphasize that the liberation of Iraq was carried out to enforce Security Council resolutions. These were the serious consequences with which Saddam was threatened if he continued his illegal acts-his illegal acts.

The American legal system seems incapable of bringing him to justice and there are no international courts with jurisdiction. So it's up to Canada to enforce the law that everybody has signed on to but nobody else seems willing to apply.

The Antitrust Division will vigorously enforce this requirement against any company that assumes operational control of a business that it is acquiring.

The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.

using the appropriations process to 'go on the offensive' and seek to restrain a federal law enforcement agency that has an obligation to enforce the laws.

We need to have stronger zoning codes and building codes, and we need to enforce them.

The advantage to party leaders is it gives them a way to enforce discipline in the House and the Senate that leaders in the past didn't have.

We have an obligation to enforce the border, ... it's important for the people of this state to understand, your voices are being heard in Washington, D.C.

The problem is people keep speeding. We're really concerned about kids using that school crossing. We want to give our police officers the ability to enforce the speed limit.

Members of this group displayed a complete disregard for the law as well as its officers and agents who enforce it.