Police Quotes · Page 13

“Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.”

— Ruadhán J. McElroy

“Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.”

— Jane Austen

Yes officer, I did see the 'Speed limit' sign...I just didn't see you.

— Anonymous

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

— Michael Bergin

The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.

— Vicente Fox

European Muslims need to feel ownership of security, rather than viewing the police as an occupying army.

— David Ignatius

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

— Peter Bruce

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

— Ron Bolton

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But…

— Martin Scorsese

Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those…

— Roy Blunt

I've been with police on patrol. When you have a gun, you just feel different. There's a protective level and you feel…

— Matt Servitto

I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this…

— Alissa Nutting

If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house,…

— Tupac Shakur

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the…

— Minnie Pearl

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust…

— Henry Rollins

I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks…

— Van Jones

There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill…

— Fatima Bhutto

It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the…

— Al Sharpton

They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there…

— Greg Gutfeld

The wild open-market theory that died in 1929 had a run of just over thirty years. Communism, a complete melding of religious,…

— John Ralston Saul

Finally, this case should serve as yet another reminder of just how dangerous and volatile these police home invasions really are, and…

— Radley Balko

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell…

— Rahm Emanuel

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little…

— Frank Abagnale

Progress is not defunding the police; it is bettering the community and police relationship.

— Byron Donalds

When you ask people to name victims of police brutality, for the most part, nobody will give you a woman's name.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

— Ben Aaronovitch

“I research what law enforcement departments do not want researched.”

— Steven Magee

“. . . being on the wrong side of a pissing contest is never a good thing.”

— Mark M. Bello

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

— Bob Dylan

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

— Danny Bonaduce

When you are younger and more radical, the police seem like the enemy.

— Adrian Dunbar

We need to restore the faith and trust between law enforcement and communities across the country.

— Mikie Sherrill

I am going to give the moral support of the presidency to the police and firemen.

— George Wallace

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

— Anonymous

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

— Ed Reed

As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“the police are only doing what they were trained to do, and what they are constantly encouraged to do by the courts.”

— James Duane

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

— John Abizaid