Police Quotes

"Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away from your children or grandchildren. You should have to license it so the police can trace it if it's used in a crime"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own"

Katie Price, Model

"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

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

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues"

Alan Autry, Actor

"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us"

Bobby Seale, Activist

"I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On"

Sting, Musician

"Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something"

Ryan Reynolds, Actor

"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police"

John Howard, Statesman

"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent"

Floyd Abrams, Lawyer

"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it"

David Icke, Athlete

"There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

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

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself"

Peter Sotos, Writer

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

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"I met Sable when she was 15 and I was 18. I sent her home to New York while we carried on the tour. When we got back the police were looking for her at the airport and everywhere!"

Johnny Thunders, Musician

"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court"

William Feather, Author

"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, Public Servant

"We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is"

Warren Rudman, Politician

"Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment"

Anthony Kennedy, Judge

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

Richard J. Daley, Politician

"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police"

Tony Greig, Athlete

"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue"

Mary Antin, Activist

"Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous"

Jack Herer, Activist

"Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted"

David Cameron, Politician

"The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"We need to police ourselves in the media"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"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, Judge

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