Quotes and Sayings about Police

 

 

"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
(Related: Work, People, Police)

"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
(Related: People, Perception, Doubt, Police, Public, Talk, Word)

"I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it."
- Bryan Adams
(Related: Time, Police, Trouble)

"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
- Spiro T. Agnew
(Related: People, American, Choice)

"Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency."
- Lucille Roybal Allard
(Related: Medical, Fire, Police, Service)

"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."
- Margery Allingham
(Related: Blood, Man, Police, Remarkable)

"Even the police have an unlisted number."
- Morey Amsterdam
(Related: Police)

"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."
- Mary Antin
(Related: Birthday, Police)

"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
(Related: Love, Health, Positive, Honor, Police, Prayer)

"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
(Related: Business, People, Fool, Play, Police, Television)

"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
- Julian Assange
(Related: Corruption, Police)

"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
(Related: Cooperation, Country, Police, Will)

"Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field."
- Dusty Baker
(Related: Coach, Coaches, Past, Police)

"The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on."
- Ronnie Barker
(Related: Nothing, Police)

"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Country, Customer, Police, Trying, Will)

"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
(Related: People, Act, Killing, Police, Trying)

"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
(Related: Children, Country, Crime, Police)

"When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens."
- Gary Bauer
(Related: Mistake, America, Law)

"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse."
- Brendan Behan
"The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy."
- Chris Bell
(Related: People, American, Delay, Democracy, Police, Protection, Public, Self)

"My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist."
- Michael Bergin
(Related: Mother, Father, Police, State)

"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
- Marion Berry
(Related: Car, Police, Promise)

"When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe."
- Mary Frances Berry
(Related: Abuse, Confidence, Job, Law, Police, Public)

"Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops."
- John Blair
(Related: People, Destruction, Fact, Numbers, Police, Talking)

"Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in."
- John Blair
(Related: Food, Police, Water)

"The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted."
- Robert Blake
(Related: Family, Wife, Information, Majority, Police)

"I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural."
- William Peter Blatty
(Related: Horror, Police, Supernatural)

"The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult."
- John Boehner
(Related: Being, Force, Freedom, Job, Police, Training)

"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
(Related: Conversation, May, Police, Saying)

"A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings."
- Robert Bourassa
(Related: Murder, Police)

"For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments."
- James Brady
(Related: Home, Defense, Police)

"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
- Louis D. Brandeis
(Related: Light, Publicity)

"There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it."
- Paul Bremer
(Related: Country, Duty, Police)

"While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Time, Work, Majority, Police)

"Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Experience, Power, Control, Community, Ego, Media, Police)

"Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Bizarre, Letters, Police, Victims)

"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide."
- Pat Brown
(Related: Murder, Police)

"The Thought Police: To censor and protect."
- Craig Bruce
(Related: Thought)

"The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city."
- Wilfred Burchett
(Related: First, Police)

"A functioning police state needs no police."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Needs, Police, State)

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
- William S. Burroughs
(Related: Society, People, Hell, Military, Police, Want)

"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about."
- Herman Cain
(Related: Time, Opportunity, Learning)

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Faith, Time, Force, Police)

"We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me."
- Robert Carlyle
(Related: Thought, Makeup)

"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
- Edward Carpenter
(Related: Time, Police)

"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Police)

"We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada."
- Paul Cellucci
(Related: Government, Canada, Cooperation, Police)

"There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council."
- Steve Chabot
(Related: Law, Police, Safety, Support)

"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: Comedy, Pretty)

"How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared."
- Caryl Chessman
(Related: Facts, Light, Man, Police, Wrong)

"Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade."
- Chris Chocola
(Related: Police, Right, Tools, Trade)

"Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Conflict, End, Police)

"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"
- Ramsey Clark
(Related: Law, Police, Public, Will)

"I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut."
- Jim Coleman
(Related: Being, Police, School, Trouble, Trying)

"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Life, Fear)

"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
(Related: Family, Development, Police)

"The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known."
- John Sherman Cooper
(Related: Facts, Police, School)

"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off."
- Tommy Cooper
(Related: Drinking, Eating, Kids, Police, Yesterday)

"If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Hate, Hurt, Police, Riot, Speech, University)

"When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me."
- Simon Cowell
(Related: Apples, Rights, Today, Worry)

"You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation."
- Alex Cox
"I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd."
- Walter Crane
(Related: Life, Thought, Numbers, Police)

"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."
- Quentin Crisp
(Related: Man, Police)

"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."
- Stanley Crouch
(Related: Crime, Culture, Dogs, Parents, Police, Politicians, Popular, Schools)

"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever."
- Mario Cuomo
(Related: Time, May, Police)

"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: Disorder)

"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: Disorder, Police)

"I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: Car, Blame, Police)

"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow."
- Angie Dickinson
(Related: Time, Women, Career, First, Police, Woman)

"How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone."
- Marlene Dietrich
(Related: Love, Police)

"My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!"
- John Dillinger
(Related: People)

"Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria."
- Alexander Downer
(Related: Police)

"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
(Related: Nothing)

"When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target."
- Jerry Doyle
(Related: Dad, Community, First, Force, Police, Pride, Sense, Today)

"I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state."
- Michael Dukakis
(Related: People, Military, Police, State)

"We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure."
- Dick Durbin
(Related: Police)

"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."
- Dennis Farina
(Related: Right)

"An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court."
- William Feather
(Related: Wedding, Court, Police, Trouble)

"When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police."
- Flavor Flav
(Related: People, Favorite, Freedom, Police)

"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
(Related: Work, Day, Police, Vacation)

"The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Government, Discipline, Police)

"Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Nothing, Police)

"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this."
- Hans Frank
(Related: Police)

"I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: First, Police, Rank, Respect)

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
- Felix Frankfurter
(Related: Force, Man, Mind, Order, Police)

"When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go."
- Dennis Franz
(Related: People)

"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."
- Antonia Fraser
(Related: People, Books, Police)

"I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men."
- Clement Freud
(Related: Men, Being, Police)

"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
(Related: Soul, Police, World)

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
- Robert Frost
(Related: Successful)

"There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution."
- Michael Gartner
(Related: Change, Constitution, Country, Military, Police, Reason)

"No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility."
- Daryl Gates
(Related: People, Opportunity, First, Police, Responsibility)

"Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department."
- Daryl Gates
(Related: People, Crime, Night, Police, Trying)

"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."
- Daryl Gates
(Related: Film, Police)

"It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible."
- Daryl Gates
(Related: Honesty, Integrity, Police, Right)

"I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand."
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: War, Control, Losing, Police, Vietnam, World)

"We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing. I was afraid for many years. We couldn't play in LA for many years. A lot of people got very cynical."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: People, Play, Police, Publicity, Years)

"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
(Related: Police, State)

"America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States."
- Rudy Giuliani
(Related: America, Defense, Needs, Police, states, United)

"First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Thought, First, Police, Ugly)

"Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato."
- Paul M. Glaser
(Related: Thought, Driving)

"The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther."
- Sharon Gless
(Related: Police, Right, Woman, Writing)

"If the police ever try to pick me up, Michael Jackson told me I can hide out at his house."
- Gilbert Gottfried
(Related: Police)

"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could."
- Chester Gould
(Related: Police)

"Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police."
- Tony Greig
(Related: England, London, Police)

"Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: War, Technology, Action, Old, Police, State, Style)

"There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story."
- Merle Haggard
(Related: Life, May, Police, Rumor)

"Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read."
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Time, Court, Learning, Police, Research)

"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world."
- Benjamin Harrison
(Related: God, Americans, Police, World)

"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force."
- Sheikh Hasina
(Related: Government, People, Force, Police, Problems, Trying)

"The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous."
- Jack Herer
(Related: Police)

"Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family."
- Seymour Hersh
(Related: Family, Work, People, Army, Care, Nothing, Police, Talk, Want)

"I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties."
- Patricia Highsmith
(Related: Mistake, Hope, Will)

"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Children, Will)

"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
- Alfred Hitchcock
(Related: Police)

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
- Laurence Housman
(Related: Court, Police, Prison, Regret)

"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
(Related: People, Earth, Military, Police, Reason, Weapons)

"I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power."
- Terrence Howard
(Related: Power, Fear, Abuse, Police)

"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Advertising, Force, Police, Today)

"First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities."
- Bobby Hull
(Related: Cities, First, Help, Police)

"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
(Related: People, Law, Police)

"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
(Related: Thought, Behavior, Force, Police, Race)

"MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic."
- Eddie Izzard
(Related: Police)

"Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up."
- LeBron James
(Related: Growing up, Kids, Lonely, Night, Police, Projects, Want)

"Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else."
- Bobby Jindal
(Related: Police, Rules)

"In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers."
- Akhmad Kadyrov
(Related: Force, Police, Will)

"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
(Related: Force, Law, Police)

"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Information, Soldiers, Trying)

"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Control, Environment, Military, Police)

"That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Policy, Military, Police, Responsibility, Training)

"The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: War, End, May, Military, Police, Population, Soldiers)

"There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished."
- Janis Karpinski
(Related: Home, Military, Mission, Police, Soldiers)

"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."
- Mathieu Kassovitz
(Related: Film, France, Months, Police, Training)

"HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood."
- Mathieu Kassovitz
(Related: Society, Money, Film, Hate, Police, Sense)

"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Party, Police, State, Taste)

"There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Money, Doubt, Fools, Hollywood, Liberals, Police, State)

"So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman."
- Harvey Keitel
(Related: Career)

"With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Police, Responsibility)

"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
(Related: Investigation, Police, Questions, Sense)

"I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street."
- Suge Knight
(Related: Time, Heart, Mind, Police, Prison)

"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Police, Scandal)

"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
(Related: Liberty, Mob, Order, Police, Relaxation)

"When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers."
- William Kunstler
(Related: People, America, Judges, Justice, Police, Talk, Talking, Tools)

"Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Kids, Saying)

"Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact."
- Ricardo Lagos
(Related: Country, Fact, Police)

"They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community."
- Serge Lang
(Related: Attention, Community, Police, Press, Problems)

"So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police."
- Tom Lantos
(Related: Truth, America, Internet, Police)

"I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police."
- Steig Larsson
(Related: Police, Will, Writing)

"No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well."
- William P. Leahy
(Related: Day, Errors, Light, Physicians, Police, Wrong)

"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."
- Richard Leakey
(Related: Anarchy, Military, Police)

"I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised."
- Amy Lee
(Related: Mom, Drama, Kitchen, Police, Queen, Relatives, Trying)

"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Time, Illusion, Race)

"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."
- David Lloyd
(Related: Government, Idea, Ideas, Force, Police, Talking)

"Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now."
- David Lloyd
(Related: Crime, France, Now, Police)

"It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force."
- Jack Lynch
(Related: Force, Obvious, Police)

"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
- Ben Maddow
(Related: Experience, Trust, Right)

"Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status."
- David Mamet
(Related: Death, Peace, Public, Question)

"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
(Related: Fact, Hair, Police, Will)

"A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would."
- Kent McCord
(Related: Work, Abuse, Hell, Man)

"A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal."
- Nancy McKeon
(Related: People, Force, Police, Respect)

"Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front."
- Marty Meehan
(Related: Work, American, Country, Police, Security)

"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."
- Carrie P. Meek
(Related: Women, Work, Crime, Safety, Security)

"Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys."
- Karl A. Menninger
(Related: Police)

"In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others."
- Tom Metzger
(Related: Enemy, Now, Police)

"Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Being, Light, Now, Police, Washington)

"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run."
- Dennis Miller
(Related: Police, Study)

"She's in a situation she tried to, that's what's complicated. She followed orders; she called off the raid. This is a dangerous situation. Somebody in DC police went ahead and started."
- Julianne Moore
(Related: Police)

"Police do not belong in war zones."
- Daniel Keys Moran
(Related: War, Police)

"If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell."
- Nicholas Mosley
(Related: Career, Driving, Hell, Police, Will)

"In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: People, Day, Heroism, Police)

"I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: Police)

"I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife."
- Ilie Nastase
(Related: Wife, Credit, Police)

"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!"
- Eliot Ness
(Related: Work, Action, Excitement, Hell, Police)

"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
- Huey Newton
(Related: Racism, Soldiers)

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend."
- Jack Nicholson
(Related: Life, Lie, People, Girlfriend, Police)

"No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty."
- George William Norris
(Related: Duty, Nation, Navy, Police)

"Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Intelligence, War, Actions, Cooperation, Planning, Police, Sharing, Succeed, Terror)

"In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath."
- Conan O'Brien
(Related: Man, Police, Trouble, Yesterday)

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."
- Ben Okri
(Related: Law, Legislators, Police, Wonder, World)

"In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future."
- John Olver
(Related: Conflict, Doctors, End, Focus, Future, Iraq, Judges, Key, Months, Police, Soldiers, Teachers, Training)

"I put a lot into it, and when I am done playing, I plan on going undercover and then being the sheriff or chief of police somewhere, either Miami or Orlando, I don't know yet."
- Shaquille O'Neal
(Related: Being, Police)

"I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey."
- John O'Neill
(Related: Kids, Police, Want)

"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp."
- John Boyd Orr
(Related: Communism, Evil, Police, State)

"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."
- George Orwell
(Related: Bombs, Cities, Earth, Lies, Police, Sun)

"In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other."
- Bill Pascrell
(Related: Fire, Information, Nation, Police)

"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."
- Ron Paul
(Related: Conservative, Constitution, Fathers, Founding, Nation, Police, Republican, World)

"As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country."
- Ron Paul
(Related: Time, Values, Building, Country, Elections, Nation, Saying, World)

"I always seemed to fall in love with policemen."
- Cynthia Payne
(Related: Love)

"When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous."
- Minnie Pearl
(Related: Women, Police, Trying)

"Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone."
- Minnie Pearl
(Related: Talking)

"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
- Robert Peel
(Related: Time, Attention, Being, Community, Existence, Police, Public, Welfare)

"To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods."
- Frances Perkins
(Related: Education, Civilization, Hope, Machine, Nothing, Police)

"A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank."
- Martin Lewis Perl
(Related: Being, Police, School)

"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."
- Richard Perle
(Related: Dictators, Enemies, Military, Police)

"I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police."
- John Pomfret
(Related: Police, states)

"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."
- Dennis Prager
(Related: Heart, Competition, Corporations, Police, State)

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today."
- Jacques Prevert
(Related: Truth, Freedom, Police, Today)

"We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities."
- David E. Price
(Related: Money, Time, Country, Tax, Police)

"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
(Related: Men, Fault, Police, Trouble)

"I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!"
- Richard Pryor
(Related: Car, People, America, Cause, Now, Police)

"In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety."
- Jim Ramstad
(Related: Home, Crime, Drugs, Importance, Police, Public, Safety, State)

"I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen."
- John Ratzenberger
"When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier."
- John Redwood
(Related: People, Clients, Nurses, Police, Teachers, Want)

"Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms."
- Robert Reich
(Related: Police, Radical, Want)

"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
(Related: Father, Brothers, Police)

"I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police."
- Keith Richards
(Related: Drugs, Police, Problems)

"Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem."
- Keith Richards
(Related: Police)

"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves."
- Kim Stanley Robinson
(Related: Police, Protection, Want)

"They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women."
- Nicolas Roeg
(Related: Women, Mistake, Now, Wrong)

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Company)

"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
(Related: Power, Idea, Control, Authority, Conformity, Force, Legislation, Man, Nations, Now, Parliament, Perfection, Police, Right, Rules)

"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
(Related: Determination, America, Cities, Fire, Police)

"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
- Dora Russell
(Related: Marriage, Incompetence, Laws, Police)

"Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?"
- Kurt Russell
(Related: Society, Police, Questions, Want)

"I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals."
- Lord Salisbury
(Related: Rank)

"I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world."
- Kim Y. Sam
(Related: Attention, Police, World)

"I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel."
- Jennifer Saunders
(Related: Thought, First, Now, Police)

"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
- Jessica Savitch
(Related: Crime, Police)

"The objective of the demonstrators is to win the affection of the armed agents of the government. Most of the Kiev police have now pledged their support for the people."
- Bob Schaffer
(Related: Government, People, Affection, Now, Police, Support)

"Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Afghanistan, Danger, Force, Military, Police, Training, Zone)

"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
(Related: Catastrophes, Force, Military, Past, Police, Population)

"Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Police, State, Will)

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."
- Bruce Schneier
(Related: Hygiene, Police, Poor, State)

"I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways."
- Martin Scorsese
(Related: Duty, Friends)

"On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer."
- Bobby Seale
(Related: Imagination, People, Help, Police)

"We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us."
- Bobby Seale
(Related: Heroes, Police)

"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music."
- John Sebastian
(Related: Music, Hair, Police)

"Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society."
- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
(Related: Society, Being, Police, State)

"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center."
- Tupac Shakur
(Related: Family, Home, Money, Boys, Police)

"On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published."
- Jonathan Shapiro
(Related: Police, Security)

"We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality."
- Al Sharpton
"My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Day, Heroes, Police, Risk, World)

"In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR."
- Bobby Sherman
(Related: First, Police, Training, Years)

"What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?"
- O. J. Simpson
(Related: Children, Kids, Police)

"Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over."
- Joshua Slocum
(Related: Nothing, Police, Reputation, Vigilance, World)

"I'm tired of living in a police state."
- L. Neil Smith
(Related: Living, Police, State)

"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners."
- L. Neil Smith
(Related: War, Drugs, Military, Now, Politicians)

"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
(Related: Life, People, Being, Chance, Parents, Police, Victims, Writing)

"Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal."
- Benjamin Spock
(Related: Idea, Police)

"You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along.""
- John Shelby Spong
(Related: Freedom, Police, State, World)

"I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police."
- Robert Stack
(Related: Golf, Play, Police)

"Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Friendship, Police)

"If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
(Related: Friendship, Matrimony, Police)

"I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On."
- Sting
(Related: Movies, Film, Police)

"There's only so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen."
- Sherry Stringfield
"In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Freedom, Now, Open, Play, Police)

"I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards."
- Andy Summers
(Related: Time, Work, Guitar, Police)

"I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him."
- John Thaw
(Related: Being, Poor)

"One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers."
- Mark Thomas
(Related: Magic, Police)

"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
(Related: Home, Police)

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Force, Machine, Navy, Police, President, Propaganda, Will)

"Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981."
- Tanya Tucker
(Related: Night, Police)

"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen."
- Robin Tunney
(Related: Chicago)

"Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions."
- Antonio Villaraigosa
(Related: Actions, Law, Police)

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
- Kurt Vonnegut
(Related: Freedom, Living, Nothing, Writer)

"In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities."
- Gijs de Vries
(Related: Intelligence, Control, Fight, Police, Security, Terrorism)

"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
(Related: People, Being, Court, Information, Needs, Police, Public, Security)

"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
(Related: Coffee, Police, World)

"I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself."
- Marc Wallice
(Related: People, Police, Smoking, Wrong)

"The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer."
- Joseph Wambaugh
(Related: Indifference, Police, Pretty)

"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment."
- Earl Warren
(Related: Confession, Crime, Police, states, Wishes)

"The police must obey the law while enforcing the law."
- Earl Warren
(Related: Law, Police)

"Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in."
- Timothy West
(Related: Being, Court, End, Play, Police)

"I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there."
- Lynn Westmoreland
(Related: Money, Defense, Police, Workers)

"If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?"
- John C. White
"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."
- Billy Wilder
"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."
- James Q. Wilson
(Related: Consequences, Law, Partnership, Police, Problems, Solution)

"We need to police ourselves in the media."
- Bob Woodward
(Related: Media, Police)

"We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter."
- Isaac Yeffet
(Related: People, Security)

"Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice."
- Lin Yutang
(Related: Peace, Justice, Lawyers, Liberty, Soldiers)

"Military police is very timely for our army."
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
(Related: Army, Military, Police)

"The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police."
- Todor Zhivkov
(Related: People, Police)

"Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep."
- Zhang Ziyi
(Related: Police, School, Sleep)

"They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach."
- Ernst Zundel
(Related: Credit, Rights, Hate, Media, Police)

"You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities."
- Ernst Zundel
(Related: People, Friends, Now, Police, World, Years)