Enforcement Quote by Janet Reno

Charged with faithfully executing the laws, the president is, in effect, the nation's highest law enforcement officer.

— George T. Conway III

“The president and his subordinates at the Department of Justice have used the executive’s awesome law enforcement power, including its access to vast sums…

— Andrew McCarthy

Police have two rights that even the president does not have, the right to take liberty and to take life. Those are dear to…

— Eric Adams

Fundamentally, the office of the presidency and its very first responsibility is to protect us as Americans and tell us how that commander in…

— Margaret Brennan

The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it…

— Benjamin Wittes

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal…

— Sam Ervin

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…

— Chris Christie

Presidents have, of course, acted inappropriately in the past, and our constitutional system has a framework in place for addressing misconduct by the chief…

— Asha Rangappa

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on…

— Ferdinand Marcos

This, in my view, is the highest responsibility of the President of the United States, which is to maintain the safety of the American…

— Mitt Romney

Our primary responsibility as the Department of Homeland Security is to protect the safety and security of the American people. And that means taking…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.

— Todd Tiahrt