Selective Enforcement Quotes

Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. - Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

When I'm late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn't matter... If that's the rule then just write it down and then I know, you know... I'll read it and I'll write it down on my balls. Right here. Right here on the back of my balls is where I'll write it. On the very back. I'll just lift them and write it nicely.

President Obama has adopted a practice of picking and choosing which laws he wants to enforce. In most cases, his laws of choice conveniently coincide with his administration's political agenda.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

That's what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: "Here's your brain, here's your brain on drugs", "Just Say No", "Why do you think they call it dope?" … And then the next commercial is [singing] "This Bud's for yooouuuu." C'mon, everybody, let's be hypocritical bastards. It's okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.

We have a presidential candidate who's deleted emails and done things illegally and is a presidential candidate. That doesn't make sense to me, because if that was any other person, you'd be in prison. So what is this country really standing for?

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

Our respectable legislators will make a most alarming fuss about every bank that is chartered, while manufacturing companies shall pass muster by the dozen, without a single question being asked or answered. Those who strain at a gnat, are marvelously adroit at swallowing a camel.

I would rather see this administration turned out for enforcing laws can see a succeed for violating them.

The president is not required to enforce all laws equally or commit the same resources to them.

The government is so brave that it dares to arrest, capture and punish Muslim leaders and activists. But officials do not have the courage to capture those engaged in corruption or the gambling mafia, who, destroy the country's moral structure

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

There's another piece of legislation in Russia that would make "allowing for nontraditional sexual relations" a cause for removing parental rights, and remove children from same-sex families altogether. It was withdrawn, most likely temporarily, under international pressure. What "allowing for nontraditional sexual relations" means, nobody knows. And this is part of the point of all of these laws. They have to be vague to not just enable but require selective enforcement.