Police Quotes

"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police"

"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous"

Jack Herer, Activist

"Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted"

David Cameron, Politician

"The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"We need to police ourselves in the media"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge

"Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell"

Nicholas Mosley, Novelist

"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"

Ramsey Clark, Public Servant

"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers"

William Kunstler, Activist

"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

"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

"In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future"

John Olver, Politician

"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

"In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"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

"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

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

Ahmet Necdet Sezner, President

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