Raymond Kelly (Raymond Walter Kelly) Quotes

No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.

Raymond Kelly

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• Police
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• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• 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
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Community

• An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Police
  • Without
  • Executive

• Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Community
  • Respect
  • City

• There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Peace
  • Military
  • Police

• All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Die
  • Alone
  • Brain

• As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Important
  • Family
  • Firefighter

• 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
  • Work
  • Action
  • Forever

• Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Free
  • Control
  • Listening

• We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.

  

  Max Baucus
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Police

• I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written by Aleksandra Marinina, the former chief of police.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Women
  • Literature
  • Police

• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  

  John Boyd Orr
  • Real
  • Evil
  • Police

• I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those conversations with me, but they did have conversations about being exceptional black people.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People
  • Parents
  • Black

• The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They thought the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to empower anyone to police it.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Small

• Come on, get ’em out, police, please. Let's go! ... Nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hurt
  • Police

• My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

  

  Bobby Sherman
  • Training
  • Police

• I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

  

  Art Malik
  • Music
  • Travel
  • Listening

• I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebody should know, if I'm going to photograph them, that's going to show up, you know?

  

  Chuck Close
  • People
  • Up

• Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

  

  Carrie Newcomer
  • Writing
  • Simple
  • Happened

• No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Helping
  • Police
  • Heroic