Country Quote by Christiane Amanpour

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

— Kathy Szeliga

In other words, in the same way that mass incarceration surged because of a real thing, it's finally starting to ebb because of a…

— Kevin Drum

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more…

— Jerry Brown

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

— Steven Pinker

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

— Moby

People are angry and dispirited about government because of a failure to do something about crime.

— Charles Schumer

We're all living under the threat of violence and terror these days.

— Chuck Todd

We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

— Barack Obama

Our nation was built and civilized by men and women who used guns in self-defense and in pursuit of peace. One wonders indeed, if…

— Ronald Reagan

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last…

— Nelson Mandela

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural…

— Steven Pinker

Our media, which is very open and report on really everything, tend to exaggerate the crime issue...This is why one gets the impression that…

— Jacob Zuma