Blanche Lincoln Quotes
It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
Lincoln, Blanche. "Statement on Law Enforcement." Congressional Record, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999.
He was specifically referring to the Marijuana Laws where some prosecutors enforce the laws but most do not.
Explaining why his Justice Department was arguing in court that abortion protestors who interfere with abortion clinics could be criminally prosecuted. As a rabid abortion opponent, anti-choice people expected him to side with the violent protesters.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
The Egyptian Army, responding to huge demonstrations, ordered the Muslim Brotherhood President to step down in what appeared to be a coup d’etat. There was an American law that required a cut off of foreign aid to any government that had come to power. The American Administration and most of Congress did not want to terminate foreign aid to Egypt, and announced that it could not come to a conclusion as to whether or not there was a coup. They did not say that there was no coups—they just decided not to decide. Since there was no finding of a coups, there was no cutoff. Senator Paul and a few other Senators, observing that there had been a coup, wanted the administration to cut off the foreign aid even though it would be detrimental to our foreign policy. The government must obey the law they argued, regardless of the consequences.
Blanche Meyers Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997.
