Officers Quotes - Page 25

• I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

  Bruce Willis

  Thinking, Law, People

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. June 11, 2007.

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• For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.

  John Travolta

  Names, Gentleman, Midnight

  Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.

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• You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

  Matt Taibbi

  Military, Night, Russia

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• As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Years, Tape, Pressure

  "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded". Article by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.

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• I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

  Edward Snowden

  Senior, Agency, Information

  "NSA Leaker Edward Snowden in His Own Words: 'You're Being Watched"'". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, www.truth-out.org. July 04, 2013.

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• Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Men, Done

  1598 Dogberry to Don Pedro. Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, sc.1, l.208-12.

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• The network told me to get rid of Number One, the woman first lieutenant, and also get rid of 'that Martian fellow'... meaning, of course, Spock. I knew I couldn't keep both, so I gave the stoicism of the female officer to Spock, and married the actress who played Number One. Thank God it wasn't the other way around. I mean Leonard's cute, but...

  Gene Roddenberry

  Cute, Mean, Numbers

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• I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Good Work, Happenings, Unconstitutional

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're always going to have guys looking at each other for the first day until they realize you're not screwing around.

  William Monahan

  Guy, Directors, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Our cause in the war on terror isn't helped when we have army officers like Lieutenant General William Boykin speaking in evangelical churches and claiming this as some sort of battle for the Christian religion. That's wrong. That's un-American.

  John F. Kerry

  Christian, War, Army

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• I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available.

  Hillary Clinton

  Training, Body, Cameras

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• So the fact that the grand jury would come back and make the decision not to indict the jailers and not make a decision on Officer Encinia, it makes us feel as though there's not going to be a positive outcome for us in that regard.

  Sharon Cooper

  Decision, Outcomes, Facts

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

  Joseph Heller

  Determination, Accomplishment, Rambling

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• And what I tell people is this - as a citizen of this country, there are certain rights that are given to you. Officer Encinia's decision to forcibly remove Sandy from her vehicle, which predicated on the fact that he asked her to do something - he did not lawfully order her to do something - to which she responded with a question. And for that - for that - I celebrate her because during a time where so many people would have remained silent she stood up for herself, and she invoked the rights that are due to her, and that is not unlawful.

  Sharon Cooper

  Country, Rights, Order

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently.

  Sharon Cooper

  Office, Police, Encounters

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition"with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Sacrifice, Rights

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.

  Kristin Lehman

  Jobs, Nice, Opportunity

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• A Communist officer told a Christian he was beating, 'I am almighty, as you suppose your God can be. I can kill you.' The Christian answered, 'The power is all on my side. I can love you while you torture me to death.'

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Love You, Sides

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• The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

  Wyatt Earp

  Gun, Men, Play

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• It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Jobs, Sorry, Husband

  "Police video: Reese Witherspoon in handcuffs" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2013.

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• It's not lying when you do it to officers!

  Terry Pratchett

  Lying

  Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs (2004). “Monstrous Regiment”, Methuen Drama

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• Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Giving, Littles, Captains

  Benjamin Franklin (1888). “The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography”

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• Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Government, Justice, Growth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1951). “1903-1905”

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• Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

  Steven Wright

  Hours, Faster, Knows

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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