Better Quote by Ken Cuccinelli

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

— Carrie P. Meek

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a…

— Carrie P. Meek

Only an approach combining tough law enforcement with physical, moral and educational revitalization of high-crime areas offers the prospect of a safer America.

— William Barr

“In America, criminal justice policies have become a second line of defense, if you will, against individuals whose development has not been adequately fostered…

— David Cay Johnston

If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing…

— Carl Panzram

Until we in the community have made up our minds that what we really want is expiation, or removal, or reform, or or the…

— Norbert Wiener

We must be particularly careful when we enact policies in response to a specific crime, a specific type of crime, or crime wave simply…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to…

— Donald Trump

Rather than following through on the proven crime and violence prevention techniques that work, we are back to tough-talking sound byte policies that have…

— Bobby Scott

It's now a crime to be a conservative in America.

— Laura Loomer

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

— Karl Kraus

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

— Nat Hentoff