Officers Quotes - Page 18

• If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is, "If you really wish to do anything, resign your office." When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Office, Wish, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

  Ian Blair

  Mean, Police, Want

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• The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.

  Mao Zedong

  Men, Speaks Out, Soldier

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Educational, Character, Thinking

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• You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Long, Climate

  "In Coast Guard commencement address, Obama buoys climate change" by Allie Malloy and Kristen Holmes, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2015.

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• We want the Army to be society's model of fair treatment. We want to assure that all soldiers are treated fairly, not because it is necessary but because it is right. Those units that have the fewest incidents are those whose noncommissioned officers really know their men and take a personal interest in their welfare.

  Silas L. Copeland

  Army, Men, Soldier

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• Soldiers expect the noncommissioned officer to be technically proficient, up front, and honest with them. Soldiers must know that NCOs care, that they can approach the NCO for guidance and direction, and that NCOs can make things happen when a difficult situation arises.

  Glen E. Morrell

  Army, Difficult Situations, Ncos

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• The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Running, Army, Ncos

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• I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

  Arnold Palmer

  School, Golf, Juniors

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.34, FastPencil Inc

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• No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Giving, Police

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.

  Romany Malco

  People, Car, Police

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the problem of identification. In The Conversation I played a character who was gay, so nobody recognised me from American Graffiti. When I did Apocalypse Now, after Star Wars, I played an intelligence officer of the American army. George Lucas saw the footage I had done and didn't recognise me until halfway through the scene.

  Harrison Ford

  Stars, War, Character

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Interview with William Thomas, www.empireonline.com. June, 2002.

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• In the army, all combat officers are taught the "Estimate of the Situation": When you are faced with a problem - take that hill, or in business maybe grow your market share - the first thing you do is to make an analysis of your environment.

  Colin Powell

  Army, Analysis, Firsts

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Police, President, Dallas

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• On January 20, 2017, Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and he will be given the nuclear codes and the power to launch the U.S. nuclear arsenal, which is comprised of some 7,000 nuclear weapons. A military officer will always be close to Trump, carrying the nuclear codes in a briefcase known as the "football."

  David Krieger

  Football, Military, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I regularly interact with officers over tea; it is part of my working style.

  Narendra Modi

  Tea, Style

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit it, isn't it true that you behave differently when people are watching you? You chew with your mouth closed and you mind your table manners because people are watching. Cops are no different. Dash cams and body cams should be standard operating procedure.

  Nancy Grace

  Country, Believe, People

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: sangam.org

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• Donald Trump said that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation. Now, here's what that means. It means you would have to have a massive law enforcement presence, where law enforcement officers would be going school to school, home to home, business to business, rounding up people who are undocumented. And we would then have to put them on trains, on buses to get them out of America.

  Hillary Clinton

  School, Mean, Home

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• Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Abuse, Culture, Tiny

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Law, Responsible, Should

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."

  Charlie Brooker

  War, Ideas, Creative

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Eight, Cities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Thinking, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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