Police Quotes

• We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Weapons
  • Arms
  • Orient House

• The police can't use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Dog
  • Crime
  • Gas

• I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

  

  Bobby Seale
  • Good
  • Friends
  • 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
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Night

• There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Work
  • America
  • Help

• The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • People
  • Business
  • Happy

• I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Night
  • Friday
  • Karma

• If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Why
  • Police

• This capitalistic system that we have to-day would not exist twenty-four hours if it were not held together by the bayonets and the clubs of the militia and police.

  

  Albert Parsons
  • Police
  • Exist
  • Capitalistic

• Police use of deadly force is rare in America. You wouldn't know that by listening to some of the blowhards out there: the newspaper, the mainstream media, the race hustlers. They make it seem like this stuff happens several times a day. It's rare.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • America
  • Listening
  • Police

• Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

  

  Kurt Russell
  • Society
  • Police

• I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in our great country jump to conclusions about each other.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Jump

• I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

  

  John David Washington
  • Job
  • American
  • Police

• 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
  • Party
  • Bitter
  • Taste

• 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
  • Important
  • Job
  • Freedom

• 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
  • Control
  • Environment
  • Military

• I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

  

  Allan Rock
  • Police
  • Soldiers
  • Guns

• I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Believe
  • America
  • Running

• Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• 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
  • People
  • Important
  • Help

• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.'

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Small
  • Police
  • Bold

• It takes a certain kind of bravery and a certain kind of goodness to be able to not just put your destructive past behind you, but to continue to take harassment from society and from police for your past.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Society
  • Past
  • Goodness

• The Police could get away with doing an entire record with really no audible reverb, which I have always admired and thought would be a lot of fun to try to re-create.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Fun
  • Police

• 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
  • Different
  • Important
  • Done

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