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Crime Quotes
"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."
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"We have just discovered our dear colleague butchered in a hotel room, and you wish to discuss literature?"
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"Twenty years ago, two of the CIA's best double-agents had been murdered in their own home on Christmas Eve. The husband had been killed first, and the wife had been raped repeatedly before she'd been beaten to death. The two children were never found."
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"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
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"Killing someone is the ultimate crime, while on the other hand, killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party."
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"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."
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"If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature."
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"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
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"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered."
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"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
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"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
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"My father's corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years."
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"Grant pressed his back against the outside wall of the turquoise and white two-story home he and a team of Miami PD officers were about to storm. On the surface the place fit in perfectly into the upper middle class neighborhood. On the inside, however, it was a fully functioning cocaine lab."
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"Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide."
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"I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale."
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"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."
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"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system."
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"Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson."
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"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
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"First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies."
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"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."
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"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
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"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade."
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"If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place."
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"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
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"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
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