Police Quotes

"Even the police have an unlisted number"

Morey Amsterdam, Actor

"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house"

Gilbert Gottfried, Comedian

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk"

Marion Berry, Politician

"In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others"

Tom Metzger, Celebrity

"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural"

William Peter Blatty, Writer

"I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state"

Michael Dukakis, Politician

"We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers"

Theresa May, Politician

"The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known"

John Sherman Cooper, Politician

"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces"

Richard Perle, Public Servant

"America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along.""

John Shelby Spong, Clergyman

"I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file"

Vincent Frank

"That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want"

Theresa May, Politician

"And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do"

Theresa May, Politician

"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer"

Joseph Wambaugh, Writer

"We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand"

Terry Gilliam, Director

"In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"Military police is very timely for our army"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in"

Timothy West, Actor

"Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy"

Theresa May, Politician

"Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms"

Robert Reich, Economist

"While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front"

Marty Meehan, Politician

"There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution"

Michael Gartner, Journalist

"People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond"

Theresa May, Politician

"Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police"

Robert Stack, Actor

"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut"

Jim Coleman, Actor

"I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street"

Suge Knight, Producer

"Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops"

John Blair, Politician

"HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood"

Mathieu Kassovitz, Director

"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off"

Tommy Cooper, Comedian

"When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

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