Crime Quotations | Page 5

We need to focus on crime and this is unfortunate, that people want to take the attention off crime.

We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like when they are 30. We know there is a huge drop in violent crime after age 24 or 25.

We haven't found any evidence that he committed any crimes here. There's evidence that he stayed here for a period of time with his family in the late 1990s.

We have not prepared that report, so we don't have any official statistics, yet, ... Right now, no one is monitoring real time crime on a daily basis. All we have is a snapshot from the daily reports. The problem is a snapshot is not always an accurate reflection of the total picture.

Michael should have been released for that crime long ago. But even though he's on heavy psychotropic medication, Michael has never been able to adjust to prison life.

While a crime can occur anywhere, a cruise ship is one of the safest ways to travel.

We do not consider it a crime to leave the permit area. It goes against our grain to close the national forests.

We don't solve the crime problem, we only control it. And we were controlling it until we let it get out of control.

White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I've seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state is a deterrent, too. It doesn't happen very often.

White-collar crime isn't something that just takes place in Erie County. There shouldn't be any restrictions when it comes to solving white-collar crimes. The criminals are organized. I think the investigators should be just as organized.

While we've made great advances in reducing crime overall across the country, the president wants to reinforce the message of how crucial it is that schools are safe and that discipline is restored.

We can't expect them to do it for free forever. It's no different than us paying a retired Army general to talk about the war, or to retain ... a retired FBI agent to talk about the latest crime trends.

We do not have any evidence that a crime has been committed.

We have SWAT units at that location. We haven't verified that the carjacking was related to this crime (the Jewish Center shooting) but if it was, this could be a major break.

When the average wine bottle on a list costs more than your dinner, when you have to decide between a bottle of wine and your kid's dentist appointment, it's a wine crime and the Wine Patrol is ready to speak out.

We believe this has to be tackled together, and we have protocols and projects under the theme of peace and security that will deal with disarmament of rebels, security management of common borders, the movement of illicit small arms and light weapons within the region, as well as fighting international crime within the region.

We are totally color blind when it comes to crime fighting,

We have a fluid, active crime scene right now. We have several persons of interest right now. We're moving rapidly along with this particular investigation.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

We've had eight wonderful years of declining crime rates, and at a certain point you just can't push those numbers further down, and we've hit that point,

We don't have a crime that we know of yet, so we're not talking about a suspect in any case, ... However, an offer has been made, and it would be irresponsible on our part not to take advantage of it.

We finally are operating with a full staff, ... And it?s been nice. But things happen around the clock. Even after you solve the crimes, there?s crime reports, grand jury appearances, trial testimony. If you have enough personnel to spread that workload out, the less impact it has on other staff members.

We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.

Dark windows are often a very clear proof.

We used to have more officers there and crime was really downnow you see no one.

The fact is, the federal law is perfectly clear. At the heart of this operation was a federal crime. The president has already conceded that he personally ordered that crime and renewed that order at least 30 times. This would clearly satisfy the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors for the purpose of an impeachment.

The fact is, under his influence, Richmond had among the highest crime rates in the commonwealth, the schools were consistently ranked near the bottom statewide, and people paid more in taxes.

The fact that Mr. Bennett later acknowledged that such abortions would be 'morally reprehensible,' but added again that if it was done 'the crime rate would go down,' is equally outrageous,

The real crime here is the Clinton-Gore record on drugs. He should explain why, during the Clinton-Gore administration, the number of teenagers using drugs nearly doubled.

The real crime is the corporate hijacking of our democracy.

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

We've solved our crime problem in a brutally Darwinian way.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

We decided that counterfeiting is a real crime against industry, constituting a growing business for organized crime and is a real threat for consumers. Our proposal aims to eradicate safe havens for the criminal organizations on counterfeiting and piracy.

The only published, peer-reviewed study of secondary effects ... found that areas surrounding adult business actually reported less crime than areas in a control group.

There are no criminals in the database. It's you guys. It's a joke.

Yes, it can happen if the offender's sexual crime was not against a child.

We hope Americans view Wendy's as a company that did the right things when this crime was committed against us,

This was not a drug deal. That defendant wanted money. And this was a crime of opportunity.

We did not file criminal charges because we did not believe that there was sufficient evidence to prove the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

We did not hinder the investigation. The main objective for Syria was to uncover and give a full picture of how the crime happened.

I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.

What man have you ever seen who was contented with one crime only?

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart

We have issues like litter and potholes and crime that I think are a lot more important.

We have a similar wildlife crime cell in our country and will provide expertise to India as we were the first country to set up such a cell.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Prison for the crime of puberty -- that was how secondary school had seemed.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

We've stopped 500,000 felons, fugitives and stalkers from getting their hands on guns, ... And the most important statistic is that gun crime in the country is down 35 percent.

The province of Kosovo is now one of the largest crime scenes in history,

You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.

the only candidate with a history of supporting the crime fighters in our city.

The only effective way to reduce and prevent juvenile crime is to balance tough enforcement measures with targeted, effective and intervention initiatives.

We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today.'

Those are human beings. That's where people live. It doesn't matter how much crime or how dirty. It's still people's home.

We still don't know what the circumstances of the crime were, if it was in some way related directly or indirectly to the violence shaking the Islamic community in so many countries.

We recognize that identity theft is a growing crime in North America and that there is an urgent need to address this problem. Unfortunately, people often become victims by conducting routine business such as using credit cards or submitting personal information to employers or government agencies, not realizing that they may be exposing this confidential data to someone who will steal their identity without their knowledge or permission.

We open up the class explaining how the city wants to partner through the network with the police department to train residents on how to help us prevent crime in the community.

The outrage here is over defaming the Prophet which is a specific crime in Islamic law.

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

The police have the power to search people's homes, to make arrests, to take blood samples and so forth as long as they have 'probable cause' to suspect that a crime has been committed. That is a fairly low standard.

We are definitely in control of this city, ... We've been almost crime free for the last four days.

We dispatched homicide investigators to the hospital and forensic crime scene investigators to the attraction, and the scene was secured.

We are not facing these outlaws on our own. No person, no agency, no company, indeed no country can prevent crime on its own.

We are seeing more juveniles involved in more violent crimes, ... I think that's a trend nationwide.

When you send our men and women over there to fight, and to put their lives on the line, you've got to back them up, you've got to give them clear rules, and you've got to give them enough room to make mistakes without treating them like criminals.

We're not saying anybody committed any crime or there's any government corruption in the city of Orlando. But when we have something raised to this level, we need to check into it to make sure that there was not.

We're not saying it's not a hate crime. What we are saying is at this particular moment in the investigation, the elements for a hate crime are not there.

We definitely need them, I'd be willing to pay a fifty cent tax, that's the only way to stop this crime in the city.

We were actually talking about it at work this morning. It just does not fee as if justice was done. Seems like a really serious crime with a pretty small consequence.

We don't know why that's true, but countywide, statewide, even nationally, data shows us that violent crimes tend to increase during July and August,

The defendant has admitted that he took part in a heinous, cowardly and hate-motivated crime that left a young man seriously injured,

The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is five years.

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.

What it boils down to is he will not be released unless he confesses to a crime he did not commit. It's probably the worst civil rights case facing the U.S. government right now.