Police Quotes

"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is"

"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city"

"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there"

Lynn Westmoreland, Politician

"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution"

James Q. Wilson, Politician

"It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force"

Jack Lynch, Statesman

"I'm tired of living in a police state"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it"

Paul Bremer, Statesman

"They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community"

Serge Lang, Mathematician

"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up"

Edward Carpenter, Activist

"Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this"

Hans Frank, Public Servant

"Police do not belong in war zones"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

"Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse"

Cornel West, Educator

"In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other"

Bill Pascrell, Politician

"Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem"

Keith Richards, Musician

"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police"

Keith Richards, Musician

"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution"

Ron Paul, Politician

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's"

Harry S. Truman, President

"So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society"

Ahmet Necdet Sezner, President

"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started"

Julianne Moore, Actress

"The relationship between 'My Chemical Romance' and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red-handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation"

Frank Iero, Musician

"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves"

Kim Stanley Robinson, Writer

"There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

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