“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.” WorldFeelsTwoWholeAttentionPoliceSouthSorryCaughtChineseEnteringNorth KoreaKoreanBeijingNorth KoreanEmbassyDefectors Author:Kim Young-sam
“The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.” WorldCountryStatesWholeAmericaPoliticalInterestUnitedEffortUnited StatesTeacherEnlightenmentResourcesPoliceStrikesTendenciesExceptionOther CountriesScopeUndesirable Author:George F. Kennan
“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.” WholeForceWeekMurderPoliceTiredThreatMinistersCabinetsDiplomatsKidnappingKidnappedPolice Force Author:Robert Bourassa
“Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.” IfsPersonsLongStillsCountryWholeUseTodayWantedPoliticalCommunicationSceneDegreesArmyPoliceLong AgoTanksFascistsPolitical PowerCoupsIndustrialization Author:Umberto Eco
“It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.” MenStatesWholeOrderForceResultsInfluencePerfectionPoliceStructureTransitoryForces Of NaturePolice Power Author:Jacques Ellul
“We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.” WholeGoalCommunityStandardsPoliceDataCollectionsTransparencyIntegratingData Collection Author:John Kasich