Eric Greitens Quotes
When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.
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The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.
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We just have to be careful of our actions as world citizens.
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We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
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We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.
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After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.
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Patience protects you from deception
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So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.
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How are people who are young and look like Oscar Grant portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with and they might have formed opinions about.
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
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A lot of people expected a lot of things and they should. Sexson's probably doing better than what people think. I'm not doing close to what people think. But that's baseball.
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When you have law-abiding citizens who are actively ready to protect themselves and their family, that reduces crime.
