Cops Quotes

• Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Violence
  • Advocate
  • Black Panthers

• I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Damn
  • Paparazzi
  • Moxie

• As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Lawyer
  • Judges
  • Clients

• Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Pairs
  • Cops
  • Adverbs

• Сops have a tough job and sometimes it takes you being tough.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Job
  • Cops

• I think it was a misunderstanding with the cops. They think I live here.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Think
  • Misunderstanding
  • Cops

• It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

  

  Ed McBain
  • Character
  • Crime
  • Deal

• I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • Family
  • Home
  • Day

• I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Embarrassing
  • Arrested
  • Cops

• Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Pictures
  • Ticket
  • Speeding

• Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.

  

  Boman Irani
  • Wonder
  • Fan
  • Celebrities

• Black lives certainly do matter - that's one thing. But, it's just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it's wrong to make cops - or any group - out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.

  

  Reginald VelJohnson
  • Black
  • Enemy
  • Wrong

• When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Chiefs
  • Cops
  • Public Safety

• I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops.

  

  Tony Sirico
  • Movies
  • Gangsters
  • Cops

• Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Wants
  • Cops

• We used to call the 1% the ruling class, but America's never felt comfortable using that terminology. It was taboo to talk about class war. Americans are okay talking about it like this; everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • War
  • Americans
  • Terminology

• For thirty years, we’ve been saying “more cops, more prisons, tougher laws.” Not only hasn’t it really worked in terms of crime, but beyond that the fallout has been so significant.

  

  Eugene Puryear
  • More
  • Crime
  • Worked

• I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

  

  Erik King
  • Father
  • Played
  • Cops

• Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

  

  Edward Conlon
  • School
  • Beauty
  • Cops