Gang Quotations | Page 2

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

There is no other book that I know of that provides such a comprehensive exposition of gang dynamics and activities.

We're going to let the process unfold, make up our minds as we go along. But nobody's talking about those issues that would break up the gang or cause a rule change or a filibuster,

We've all aged some, but I just did, this past summer, another Rockford Files movie with the whole gang out there, Joe Santos and everybody else.

During his tenure as police chief there were credible reports of summary executions of gang members by police.

Every community in Solano County has a gang problem. It's here and it's here to stay, ... We have to be realistic about that. We're always going to have some gang activity. The important thing is to maintain control.

Every gang member that I have worked with is enamored by the hip-hop culture and the lifestyles of this genre's rich and famous. It is common for youths to emulate these rap artists by wearing similar gangster-type clothing. This alone is not concerning. The concern evolves when the behavior and attitude begin to go as south as the pants. Certain rap artists tout their criminal history, gang affiliation and their fortune of surviving gun battles. It becomes a concern, when dealing with a very troubled individual that is consumed by the gang mentality.

Everyone talks about the confidence Tom Brady has in what he does and I don't doubt that. But let's not overlook the confidence that he brings to every other guy on that football team on offense or defense or the kicking game - 'let's get the ball back; let's get field position because Tom can do it.' He is certainly not a one-man gang there, but to me, the one thing a quarterback can bring is hope and certainly he not only brings you hope, but in most cases if you give him an opportunity, he will get it done.

Yes, we've had homicides. Oftentimes it's the nature of some of the men. We have the most difficult gang members from the management's perspective, men who have a history of violence against the staff, against other inmates. Pelican Bay is the last step. We don't get to send them anywhere from here.

You can't deny where we're located. We do have the beginnings of gang activity. We do have some inner city issues, (which) if we want to make this a welcoming cultural center have to be addressed.

I sometimes think of us as a gang of mean little old ladies in a combination rest home and obstacle course.

The state said this case is not about scientific evidence because they don't have any ... no DNA, no fingerprints. Senator Williams and his gang were out for drugs and didn't care who got in their way. There's no testimony that Washington got those drugs.

We want young people to avoid gangs. And we know that if they're not tattooed with gang tattoos, they're more likely to be employable,

There are kids in the (Donelson, Hermitage and Old Hickory) areas claiming gang membership, but these gangs are so spread out that there is really no structure or leadership. (Lack of communication) keeps gangs from being structured.

It was two separate kids with two different gang affiliations.

With Dante leaving, it just tore us all apart. We realized the best music is written when you have no distractions, and all that matters at the end of the day is your gang of friends.

The reasons change from kid to kid. We can't say that a child joined a gang for x, y and z. The one common thing is that gangs give their members something that is not being provided anywhere else. It can be camaraderie, money or drugs.

We had a good second scrimmage, giving up just one score, so we've looked good defensively so far. Our strength is our gang tackling and swarming to the ball. We are playing good, sound fundamental defense.

We are very much aware of the potential for gang activity here. So far we haven't seen any evidence of gang participation in the juvenile system.

I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

Two sides will gang up on the third ... and the Sunnis are seeing this.

The money will come in handy with our summer program, ... It will also allow us to train officers to stay current on gang activity.

That opened the door and showed us the big plays were there for us. (Schilling) has got some talent. We could feel the momentum going our way then and things started clicking. Guys started making their blocks and gang tackling.

They see a lot of violent crime and a lot of gang violence that's what I'm concerned about.

They think China, the U.S. and South Korea are going to gang up on them.

Prisons have always been desegregated, but had we made housing decisions based on a person's race? Yes. It's no secret that many instances of gang violence in prison are racially motivated.

Ruiz and his gang continued to commit crimes over and over again while out on bail. It is apparent to us the only way they're going to stop ripping people off is if they're locked up.

Our department is now investigating another 980 deaths of young gang members.

FBI joint task forces - Violent Crime Safe Streets, Violent Gang Safe Streets, and Safe Trails Task Forces - focus on identifying and targeting major groups operating as criminal enterprises. Much of the Bureau's criminal intelligence is derived from our state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, who know their communities inside and out.

This billboard conveys to the students a disturbing message actively promoting gun violence, criminal behavior and gang affiliation, ... Placement of the billboard in this location at this time is an insensitive and reckless affront to the parents, school administrators and students seeking to improve their community.

This (crime) is particularly heinous, ... He's small, and there's no indication that he has any association with gang activity.

This gang has terrorized that community for decades. We're happy to help the community by taking some key players off the street.

You need to identify and recognize and admit that there is a gang problem in New Jersey.

In essence it was a gang rape. There were four people being accused and all four of those individuals were accused of having a sexual relationship with a woman against her will.

If the real estate gang could, they'd raise the rents in the graveyard

I'm from the crime capital / And the air smells like death that eats everything that lives / If it was up to me / I would reunite every gang in the name of the fearless people that have fallen / I am a valiant man who's just asking you to stop spilling innocent blood.

I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

If you've got that little gang of people sort of wanting to leave something on their tombstones that's a bit different than, 'I had a nice, well-paid career for 40 years' -- and I think that's what I see in Iowa. These guys are serious.

If you don't look for them you won't find them. The razor gang is no longer using a razor, it is using a toothpick.

I'm going to have a gang here. I don't know where I'm going to put them all.

The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy

The after-school programs that have been disparaged are the kinds of things that will actually reduce gang involvement.

The net is closing. Leaving firearms, clothing and cash in the van suggests to me that there are people in the gang who are now making mistakes.

It was 25 to life, mostly towards gang warfare and shooting police officers so I had to turn him away.

No matter what happens (incoming AOL CEO Richard) Parsons and gang are going to concentrate on calming market expectations. Period.

All of us in the gang hope that the gang has no role; that would mean that the nomination is successful.

Do not damage your mental peace by receiving the letter and reading the contents. Refuse to receive it. You have a chance of correcting the wrong-doers too; accept it and join the gang of mischief-makers. So be warned!

The consequence you'll see will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes

The 'inside the beltway' gang is looking for various kinds of signals about who's doing well and who's not doing well.

It has to be gang defense. In other years, when we were better on defense, it was because of a team effort.

In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools: talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of line, wearing improper clothes, and not putting paper in wastebaskets. A more recent survey lists these top seven: drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, and assault. (Arson, gang warfare, and venereal disease are also-rans).

I didn't expect right after July 16th to be more in demand and more respected everywhere I went, from the West coast to the East coast, from hard-core gang members to corporate people with suits and ties on, black and white. It just secured everything for me. I've been on a nonstop crusade since July 16th. I haven't had much time for family time, based on the outpouring of love and respect they have for Bernard Hopkins.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

Gang members are violent. A lot of these kids don't expect to live to be 20 years old.

Gang members in general are becoming more violent, more sophisticated in their organization and technology and are creating many more problems for our youngsters and our families.

Gang violence continues to grow every day in New Jersey, and it's time to take a new approach to solving the problem of gangs in our communities,

Gang violence continues to grow every day in New Jersey and it?s time to take a new approach to solving the problem of gangs in our communities,

Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.

They were really great, they were sweet guys, ... Very respectful, great to my mum, had good conversations; they'd explain all their different tattoos to her. And it was a hard scene for me to do because it was the first week of filming and, regardless of whether he was in a gang or not, I had to give this guy a lap dance. But they were really, really nice to me.

It keeps the gang members off the street.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

The mother explained it to a teacher at the school who didn't know these were gang colours, ... The kids were being recruited through their colours.

The drug dealers and gang members are waiting for these teenagers.

The effect of their (the administration's) policy, by not taking the drug dealer with a gun, the violent felon with a gun, and the gang member with a gun off the street is somebody later gets killed.

All gang cases are very challenging and difficult.

The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

The majority of people here in LA are people, who work every day, who are not involved in gang banging or violence. The media focuses in on people like 50 Cent who exploit those images and give Los Angeles a bad reputation.

You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.

These games don't tell (children) once (a gang member) gets caught, he's going to go to jail and possibly be executed.

These included violent offenders, drug dealers and gang members. This is an important step in ensuring a culture where the law is respected, where the judicial process is observed. Sentences are meaningful, and hard time is served.

These kids have their own gang bible, just like I have a book of general statutes. And they have to study.

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.

Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots.

It's almost like a game, with various people playing king of the hill. These groups are structured very hierarchically, and each of them have certain reputations they like to maintain. It's very similar to inner-city gang members, minus the violence.

It's not very surprising that gang members would lie to police. What's surprising is that police would lie to gang members. What you end up with is this whole group of deceivers, operating in this shadowy underworld.

It's not like the bar is associated with any particular gang. There might be people in a gang that visit the bar, but that's the extent of it.

It really was the gang members which took advantage of the situation,

As we crack down on gang activity, we have to often deal with the hiding places, houses where illegal activity is occurring.

Each of my artists was affiliated with a gang at one point in their life- the Crips, Bloods and BGDs. This record will be the first time that members of these groups has come together peacefully and produced something really great, ... This project will further people's minds- knowing that there are other options than that lifestyle- whether it be basketball, rapping, furthering your education or becoming a lawyer or doctor.

That's the basic nature of their scheme anyway, to gang up on the run, try to condense the field.

There was no way I was going to send him to Comstock. The thing a lot of parents are concerned about in Santa Rosa is gang activity at school.

The report is very explicit as to what occurred. For all practical purposes, it essentially was a gang rape.

It's absolutely crazy. We're like the gang that can't shoot straight. I would never have agreed to move the deadline unless they acceded to my financial conditions. I want to go to bed, too. But once they agreed to take our proposal to the owners, I had no choice.

We had a hoop and a gang of kids out there all the time. He's a better shot than I ever was.

We go into some of the schools and work with some of the kids, these the kids who are troubled, whether it's having outbursts in class or they are a part of some gang related activity. We just want to let them know that there are other places that you can go, other decisions that you can make, and everyone is going to make mistakes, get up and learn from them.

It's hard to gang up one, ... when there are two that are pretty good.

There's already some movie interest, and this is the first of a series of books. In the next book, Nicky Deuce brings the Brooklyn gang to his New Jersey hometown and sets it on its ear.

If I don't speak up, who else is going to get stabbed? ... They don't know their children are having to deal with criminal gang members in their 20s. What are these people doing stabbing teenagers?

I can say without a shred of doubt that I have never, nor has anyone else that I have ever known, heard of gang members conducting a drive-by shooting while listening to Mozart or Vivaldi. But the same can not be said about 50 Cent - even the opening of his first and hopefully last movie spawned shootings at movie theaters across the country.

He basically stabbed pro-life people in the back by joining the Gang of 14,

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

You tell me another gang that's got a dental plan.

So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?