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Crime Quotes


"I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics."


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


"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."


"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."


"Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?"


"But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown."


"Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law."


"Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung."


"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction."


"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."


"Base stealing, like crime in general, is increasing and is also getting more difficult to curb."


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


"In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system."


"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."


"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."


"He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House."


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


"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."


"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."


"I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another 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."


"Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime."
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