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"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."
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"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
"Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful."
"Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences."
"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations."
"If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences."
"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."
"The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself."
"Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own."
"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."
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"Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about."
"Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness."
"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."
"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."
"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
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