Policemen Quotes - Page 2

• My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

  Donald Coggan

  Ignorance, Thinking, Talking

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• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  L. Neil Smith

  Military, War, Drug

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• Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Freedom, Writing, Perfect

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.187, Dial Press

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• The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

  Earl Warren

  Integrity, Law, Hypocrisy

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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• Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

  Trent Reznor

  Stars, Rocks, Careers

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• there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

  Charles Bukowski

  Angel, Clouds, Streets

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• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Police

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• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Martin Scorsese

  Way, Cop, Duty

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• There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

  Sherry Stringfield

  New York, Attorney, Shows

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• My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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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

  Police, Criminals, Want

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

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• I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Police, Enforcement, Law Enforcement

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Moving, Men

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.5021, e-artnow

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• You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

  Robert Fulghum

  Lying, Doctors, News

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• The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you
  disagree as well as those with which you agree.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Mean, Law

  John F. Kennedy (2013). “The Letters of John F. Kennedy”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.

  Warren E. Burger

  Exercise, People, Judging

  "Standards Relating to the Urban Police Function" by Frank J. Remington, American Bar Association: Advisory Committee on the Police Function, (p. 2), 1972.

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• They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there isn't any supporter backup. If you make a mistake as a plumber, you know, you fix it and everything goes on or you get sued. But if you make a mistake as a cop, you are more infamous than Jesse James, everything's over.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Jobs, Mistake, Goes On

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a cop is black, like the three arrested in Baltimore, or one dead in Mississippi, the hard left uses race as the underlying cause. It's why there are no defiant marches when policemen are killed.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Race, Black, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

  Kent McCord

  Men, Guy, Abuse

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• Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mean, Law, Justice

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• The Jersey Shore is the kind of place where the policeman has a little cottage that might have been in the family for years and many other people call home.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Home, Years, People

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• Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing, Police, Criminals

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

  Frank Rizzo

  Teacher, Couple, Excellence

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• Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

  Minnie Pearl

  Redneck, Talking, Breakfast

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• I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.

  Lady Gregory

  Baby, Children, Drama

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.193, tredition

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