I would absolutely never use the federal government to…

I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas…

— Oliver Stone

In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time…

— George Carlin

I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.

— Jimmy Carter

The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we handle the…

— Ron Paul

The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what we want;…

— Ron Paul

There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially…

— Dana Rohrabacher

There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about…

— Jimmy Fallon

If the federal government will not enforce the immigration laws, our state and local law enforcement should be empowered to do so.

— Tommy Tuberville

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government…

— Grover Norquist

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

— Pat Toomey

The American people don't trust the Federal Government to enforce our immigration laws, and we will not be able to do anything on immigration…

— Marco Rubio

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

— Charles Murray

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and…

— Paul Craig Roberts

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

— Jared Polis

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

— Malcolm Gladwell