Officers Quotes - Page 9

• All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

  Marc Goodman

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Children, School, Gun

  "NRA: 'Only Thing That Stops A Bad Guy With A Gun Is A Good Guy With A Gun'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, Peter Overby, www.npr.org. December 21, 2012.

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• Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

  Brandon Marshall

  People, High Standards, Enough

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Generals often find a way of dealing with generals on the officer-to-officer level. In the hierarchy of the military and with the almost similar structure and similar language, they find a way of dealing with each other.

  Kofi Annan

  Military, Levels, Hierarchy

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• We also have to recognize, in addition to the challenges that we face with policing, there are so many good, brave police officers who equally want reform.

  Hillary Clinton

  Brave, Challenges, Police

  "Clinton And Trump Clash In Tense First Presidential Debate". www.npr.org. September 26, 2016.

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• Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  War, Army, Texas

  Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

  Robert Burns

  Quitting, Hundred

  Robert Burns (1854). “The Life and Works of Robert Burns”, p.200

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• In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him to open the glove compartment.We have other examples in which people have met the same fate when they appear to be complying. Yet the way that the system tends to operate and the way the police when you talk to them view that situation is they are looking for things that trigger their perception of threat and that`s a highly subjective judgment.

  Chris Hayes

  Believe, Fate, Views

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Matt Lauer asked her [Hillary Clinton] tough questions, in fact, questions that should have been asked and followed up on by the FBI in their investigation where they came to a rosy conclusion. So to me, this was actually very helpful. And I think obviously it was big moment there, right out of the bat when we had the naval officer who really put it to Hillary and said listen .

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Thinking, Should Have, Tough Questions

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized...
  I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote.
  I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom.
  I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

  Common

  Kids, Caring, Rights

  "72nd Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• I know there are officers who do good. There are a whole lot.

  Brandon Marshall

  Whole, Knows

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

  Charles Graner

  Christian, Men, Grown Man

  "Punishment and Amusement" by Scott Higham and Joe Stephens, www.washingtonpost.com. May 22, 2004.

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• I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

  Scott Walker

  Teacher, Thinking, Issues

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• If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

  John Buchan

  Laughing, Police, Brain

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.807, e-artnow

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• Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Running, Men, Brave

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• The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.

  George Washington

  Care, Inattention, Fine

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Marine Corps, Desire, Battle

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• It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.

  John Paul Jones

  Mean, Gentleman, Honor

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• There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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• Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray; fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.

  Ward Churchill

  Order, Support, Pieces

  "CU Prof Defends Military Remarks" by Jim Kirksey and Amy Herdy, www.denverpost.com. June 29, 2005.

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• In real war an officer may have only one chance at succeeding. Consider each problem.

  David Gemmell

  Real, War, May

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 1, 1990.

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• 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

  Teacher, Keys, Doctors

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• If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.

  Moshe Ya'alon

  Idf, Get Up, Bus

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Exercise, Men, Voting

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Mean, Army

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. V), 1916.

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