Police Quotes - Page 2

• You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

  William Shakespeare

  Jobs, Men, Fit

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [19]

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• I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

  Terrence Howard

  Abuse, Natural

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.

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• Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Law, Criminals, Our Actions

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• It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Law, Enforcement, Crime

  "The Sicilian Connection" by Peter Stoler, content.time.com. October 15, 1984.

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• I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

  Jessica Savitch

  Literature, Crime, Beats

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Government, People, Trying

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• He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

  James A. Baldwin

  Nice, Gun, Men

  "Mamie Till's warning still holds true in a racist world" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'

  Kurt Russell

  Criminals, Want, Method

  "Dark Blue - Kurt Russell Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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  After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

  William S. Burroughs

  Military, Gun, People

  "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.

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• Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
  harm's way every day, every week, every year.

  James McGreevey

  Years, Firefighter, Way

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• 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

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Secret

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• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  Barack Obama

  War, Succeed, Degrees

  Speech to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, July 12, 2004.

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  The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Cities, Atoms

  1946 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

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• Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

  Dora Russell

  Marriage, Army, Law

  "The Right to Be Happy". Book by Dora Russell, p. 241, 1927.

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• When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Records, Holding On, Significant

  "High court reverses inmate's death sentence" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.

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• When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

  Flavor Flav

  Jail, People, Favorite Person

  "Hip-hop, you don't stop" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

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• A functioning police state needs no police.

  William S. Burroughs

  Government, Atheism, Needs

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

  Elia Kazan

  Party, Taste, Bitterness

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

  Mark Thomas

  Believe, Mushrooms, Magic

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• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  Otto Schily

  Military, Past, Important

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• 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

  Trying, Village, Crowds

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• We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  New York, Moving, Security Guards

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Hygiene, Someday

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

  John Boehner

  Jobs, Training, Important

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