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Crime Quotes


"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means."


"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."


"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."


"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."


"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."


"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."


"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."


"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."


"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."


"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it."


"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."


"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."


"We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime."


"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."


"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."


"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."


"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."


"In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement."


"Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime."


"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."


"However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today."


"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."


"As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals."


"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."


"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."


"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
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