Criminals Quotes - Page 2

• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Witty, Humorous, Teaching

  "How do we tell truths that might hurt?" by Edsger Dijkstra, June 18, 1975.

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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  Karl Kraus

  Justice, Human Nature, Crime

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

  Linda Tripp

  People, Expectations, Privacy

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• I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

  Kenneth Lay

  Thinking, Numbers

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• The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

  Ken Calvert

  Pregnancy, Fetus, Penalties

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• If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

  Sonny Bono

  Men, Bob, Honest

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• The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

  Jim Costa

  Community, Way, Host

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• I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

  Steve Buyer

  Together, Flaws, Leaks

  "FBI seeks stolen personal data on 26 million vets" by Terry Frieden and Marsha Walton, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2006.

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• Too much virtue can be criminal.

  Jean Racine

  Too Much, Virtue

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• Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.

  Bill Shuster

  Military, Moving, Fighting

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• My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Roles, Investigation, Obligation

  "Louis Freeh says he 'distrusted' Bill Clinton". www.today.com. October 10, 2005.

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.

  Dave Matthews

  Frustration, Lines, Way

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• I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

  Jurgen Habermas

  War, Mistake, Decision

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• No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

  Howard Metzenbaum

  Gun, Alaska, Ak 47

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• ...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Gun, Government, Ongoing

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• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Illegal Things, Envy, Wish

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• To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

  Prem Rawat

  Creating, Perfect, Mind

  Speech in Los Angeles, September 1973.

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• Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Punishment

  Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).

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• There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Country, Sex, Statistics

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• I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

  Richard Linklater

  Artist, Mind, Seems

  "You can't hold back the human spirit". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

  Danny Sugerman

  Drug, Black, Pay

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• Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

  Norman Lamm

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  Hamid Karzai

  Running, Forever, Hussein

  "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.

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• These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.

  Paul Cellucci

  Team, Law, Office

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