Police Quotes

"How could you?! Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives those sermons at church? Captain Whatshisname? We live in a society of laws! Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Makes sound effects and laughs. Where was I? Oh yeah! Stay out of my booze."
-Matt Groening

"The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory."
-Jeff Cooper

"The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision."
-Edwin Meese Iii

"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."
-Albert Einstein

"Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped."
-George Orwell

"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them."
-Randy K. Milholland

"A functioning police state needs no police. "
-William S. Burroughs

"My biggest concern is who is going to police it. It's a role I don't want to take on or have my staff take on."
-Jeff Forbes

"I ask that we all come together as a community, that we work together to address the threat of gang violence, that I commit as mayor to work with the Police Commission that this matter is fully investigated and we call the facts as we see them."
-Antonio Villaraigosa

"Never have I seen both men and women of the fire and police departments works so closely."
-Vito Scotti

"More than corrupting the public trust, these Guatemalan police officials have been Trojan horses for the very addiction and devastation that they were entrusted to prevent."
-Karen Tandy

"I hope police haven't rushed to judgment. He just doesn't fit the profile of the recent shooting arrests."
-Lindy Urso

"From Sunday morning, Israeli police are going to be on their highest alert."
-Genmoshe Karadi

"He left behind his cowboy boots and luggage but he came back and the police were there."
-Kathleen Bergen

"I heard a loud noise which woke me up, and I jumped up, and it was just in time for me to see something burst through the wall, which happened to be a police car."
-Terry Jackson

"We're focusing on recovering bodies and establishing an infrastructure for the police."
-John Gutierrez

"We are still interviewing witnesses and conducting an investigation, but it's starting to look like this really isn't a police matter."
-Doug Cole

"And I just need to get on with my life here, and concentrate on being the chief of police here in Moose Jaw and continuing my studies at the University of Regina."
-Terry Coleman

"We need a new police department building. And they are working with 25-year-old dispatch equipment. The city has property, they could have the funds for a new police building."
-Carol Smith

"[Colon] should have known the limits. That's why he is a police officer."
-Leticia Valle

"We wish to add our voices to calls that the forces of the police and army of the Yugoslav federation respect democracy and the will of the people."
-Walter Veltroni

"The army is assisting the police and a curfew has been imposed."
-Haz Iwendi

"We've met with the Salinas Police Department, and they just can't meet our needs 100 percent."
-Gene Thompson

"Following the police operation, police officers are being deployed at the site to provide reassurance and assist in returning the site to normality."
-Mark Jones

"As far of the mechanics of the search, I'm not sure. We're providing some manpower to help with the excavation, but the police are managing the search."
-Geri Rush

"If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) — anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation."
-Alan Colmes

"I don't know what my dad went through. My parents never talked to us about his time on the police department, so I'm not sure what he went through."
-Frances Roberts