Crime Quotes

"In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy"

Betty Hill, Celebrity

"The attacks inside Israel are operations we carry out in response to Israeli crimes against our people"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king"

Alex Cox, Director

"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics"

Mark Millar, Writer

"The crime of loving is forgetting"

Maurice Chevalier, Actor

"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders"

Warren Christopher, Statesman

"When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden"

Robert Fisk, Journalist

"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent"

Barry McCaffrey, Soldier

"But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

"I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C"

Luke Scott, Athlete

"In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated"

Franjo Tudjman, Statesman

"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives"

Jerry Costello, Politician

"We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence"

Pete Domenici, Politician

"Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time"

Mel Carnahan, Politician

"History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult"

Catherine Crier, Journalist

"One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country"

Anna Paquin, Actress

"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past"

Jalal Talabani, Politician

"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House"

Ralph Abernathy, Activist

"My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood"

Rob Reiner, Director

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