“I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved by Congress -- which represents our people. All of you live in safety from domestic enemies because of security from the police. Likewise, you live in safety from foreign enemies because our military keeps them from attacking us.” PeopleShouldBelieveCountryI BelieveEnemySecurityMilitaryRegretPoliceSafetyCongressPreservesAccomplishedShould IAttackingI RegretApprovedAttacking Us Author:Hyman Rickover
“Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.” IfsShouldHumansSelfCountryProblemGovernmentCrimeCitizensBehaviorGunPoliceDefenseGun ControlHuman BehaviorSelf DefenseFirearmsFree CountryBehavior Problems Author:Charley Reese
“If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.” IfsThinkingBelieveCountryProblemWould BeI BelieveInterestSpecialGunVoteBiggerWake UpPoliceCorruptionGun ControlVersusSpecial InterestsPopular VoteBigger ProblemsPolice Work Author:Garry McCarthy
“I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.” PeopleShouldCountryBeliefGunShould HavePoliceSoldierFirmOfficersPolice OfficerFirearmsFirm BeliefsOttawa Author:Allan Rock
“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. [On keeping guns]” IfsKnowsShouldChildrenCountryShowsUsedKnow HowCrimeGunShould HavePoliceOur ChildrenStoresYour ChildrenGrandchildrenLicense Author:Michael D. Barnes
“Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.” TryingMeanCountryHelpingSchoolParentViolenceStudentsGunStandingTragedyTheaterPoliceCongressStealingInnocentEach DayOfficersShoppingNot AfraidCitizenshipGun ControlPastorHookKeep TryingVisitingPolice OfficerMallsGun ViolenceMovie TheaterSandySandy Hook Author:Barack Obama
“Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.” LooksStillsCountryStreetsPoliceCornersFascinatingCommunistTowers80sStreet CornersBulgaria Author:Joan Cusack
“Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.” WorldLifeNeedsCountryStatesAmericaHumanityLostEnemyPlanetsHugeWeaponsMassEconomicsDestructionPoliceThreatUsaArroganceWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionMenacePolice StateHubrisStalinismAnti-americanAmerican Empire Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.” WayPersonsCountryReasonUseChangeMilitaryGunConstitutionPoliceNo ReasonOfficersBansPolice OfficerHandgunsHandgun BanGun Ban Author:Michael Gartner
“The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and insist that criminals must be punished. It happens in all countries, there is a time when the army assumes the duty of internal security.” FeelsCountryHappensSecuritySeriousDutyElementsArmyPoliceAssumingSoldierCriminalsInternals Author:Yoweri Museveni
“My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing what they want. They have got control of the oil and they are exporting it, and they have stripped a government that was 90% state owned and they are privatizing it. ... They have taken a country that was self defining and self developing and is now an impoverished prostrate devastated country where people will line up to work for slave wages or become members of the police or army because it's the only job they can get and serve as adjuncts to U.S. imperialism.” PeopleWantSelfCountryStatesGovernmentJobsPoliticalLinesTakenPolicyMembersArmyPoliceSlaveIraqOilDevelopingWorking ItWagesImperialismDefiningDevastatedExporting Author:Michael Parenti
“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.” CountryCommunityPayBreakTaxesProgramPoliceBillsImprovementWealthyGrantsOfficersOur CommunityPolice OfficerTax Breaks Author:David Price
“I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.” CountryPoliceCooperationOfficersFundingMayorsPolice Officer Author:Alan Autry
“[Computer viruses] switch from one country to another, from one jurisdiction to another - moving around the world, using the fact that we don't have the capability to globally police operations like this. So the Internet is as if someone [had] given free plane tickets to all the online criminals of the world.” IfsWorldCountryFactsInspirationMovingMotivationGivenInternetComputerPoliceCriminalsAround The WorldPlanesOperationsOnlineCapabilityTicketsVirusesJurisdictionComputer Viruses Author:Mikko Hypponen
“Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.” ShouldYearsStillsWarCountryGovernmentLosesEffortDangerousCrimeBattleDrugLosingAbuseIncreasePoliceWesternAvailableOur CountryUselessTherapyQuantityUsersPenaltiesDealerPreventionCannabisDrug Abuse Author:Raymond Kendall
“Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.” PeopleCountryStatesUseOrganizationPolicePossessionThrustLegislatureSecond AmendmentFirearmsAdventDiabolicalEncroachmentGestapo Author:Edwin Arthur Hall
“You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.” WantStillsTwoIdeasCountryLawLostLinesCasesTroubleRegretDutyDirectorsStandardsRespectPoliceRegardProducersComedianGrievingOfficersLaw EnforcementEnforcementExclusiveHigh Standards Author:Jon Stewart
“It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.” WayLittlesCountryLawUsedArmsEnglandPoliceRegardRussiaFranceOfficersArtilleryRevolverBatonEstimating Author:Lord Dunsany
“Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'” KnowsCountryRunningDiesSpiritualityAsksOkayPoliceThought Police Author:Tommy Chong
“We have 11 horses up at our country home, six of which are rescue animals ... Two of them are 'cop horses' from the mounted police, ages 4 and 5, who turned out to have physical problems that weren't suitable for the kind of work they have to do. Now, with us, they are just out to pasture and have nothing but a good time, eating their heads off, romping and frolicking, and just doing all good horsey things.” KindTwoCountryProblemHomeAgeAnimalSixEatingHorsePoliceOur CountryPetGood TimesCopRescueSuitablePasturesIce AgeAnimal RescueGood Horse Author:Mary Tyler Moore
“We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.” WorldCountryOrderWorstCrimeOfficePoliceCamerasResponseExtraordinaryBoundsSpeedViolentLazyOffensiveViolent Crimes Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from his native Eritrea, which the police interpreted as occult symbols. He was lashed three hundred times and imprisoned for more than three years.” MenYearsBookCountryCharacterReligionThreeCrimeExampleHundredPolicePhonesSymbolsNativeThree YearsWitchcraftOccultArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisAlphabetEritrea Author:Steven Pinker
“I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.” I CanCountryGovernmentSecretBecomingPoliceConvictionOur CountrySecret Police Author:Robert H. Jackson
“While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” IfsWantPersonsStillsBookCountryAmericaCertainHouseNamesWhiteRecordsSubjectsMediaFrontsPoliceCourtDemocraticLibrarySupremeDestroyedBurningTitlesRemoveWhite HouseSenateRepresentativesDesksShelvesSupreme CourtBullyLibrarianPublic LibraryHouse Of RepresentativesPhysical StrengthThought PoliceFront Desk Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.” YearsCountryRiskEuropePoliceDemocraticTerrorismGermanyExposedRegimesMassacresHijacking Author:Oriana Fallaci
“A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.” MenCountryWould BeAgeThreePoliticsSocietyPoliticianTenPoliceCourtScoreFortyGardenerStatesmenRipeClerksMagistrates Book:Cakes and Ale Source: Cakes and Ale
“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.” IfsCountryHappensDutyPolice Author:Paul Bremer