Police Quotes - Page 5

• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Robert Peel

  Giving, Community, Society

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government... Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people...

  Bob Schaffer

  Winning, Government, Objectivity

  "Go Orange!". National Review Online Interview, www.nationalreview.com. November 30, 2004.

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• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  Benjamin Harrison

  War, Presidential, Liberty

  Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Marine, Army, Long

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Detectives, Married

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Home, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Citizens, Used, Function

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• There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

  Thomas Reed

  Race, Humanity, Opinion

  Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”

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• The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

  Jeff Cooper

  Family, Gun, Citizens

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• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  Zhang Ziyi

  School, Sleep, Littles

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Abuse

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

  Fighting, Agency, Terrorism

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• We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

  Paul Cellucci

  Grateful, Government, Ontario

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• It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Order, Mind

  "Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. January 2, 1952.

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• There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

  Paul Bremer

  Country, Duty, Ifs

  "Interview with Paul Bremer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. September 24, 2003.

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• I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Done, Miami

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• I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

  Terry Gilliam

  War, Losing Control, Vietnam

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• In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Exercise, Power, Hemisphere

  Annual Message to Congress, 6 Dec. 1904. Known as the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine

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• What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

  O. J. Simpson

  Sports, Children, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Pain, Savages, Brutality

  Amandla @amandlastenberg, twitter.com. April 28, 2015.

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• The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Men, Law, Defense

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• Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

  James Carville

  Government, Political, Crooks

  James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Law, Jail, People

  Speech,Williamsburg, Va., 1 May 1965

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• I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, White, Zimbabwe

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