Police Quotes

"I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power"

"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

"We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"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 way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own"

Katie Price, Model

"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues"

Alan Autry, Actor

"First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory"

Jeff Cooper, Celebrity

"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police"

John Howard, Statesman

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

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it"

David Icke, Athlete

"There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"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 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

"What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"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

"I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!"

Johnny Thunders, Musician

"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court"

William Feather, Author

"The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment"

Anthony Kennedy, Judge

"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder"

Richard J. Daley, Politician

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