Officer Quotations

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

They basically said that if I didn't show up for school they'd mark me present, they wouldn't send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I'd go out to Jamaica, but I didn't take it seriously.

I was initially assigned to the American Consulate in Aden, not as Principal Officer but as a supernumerary officer to handle Yemen affairs. We had no resident diplomatic mission in Yemen at the time. People from Aden went up to Yemen regularly.

As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

Microfinance initiatives are very high-touch models. The loan officer meets with local groups of borrowers every week, they share tips and techniques. There's a lot of training and learning that goes on, which adds to the cost of the model.

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces home on leave - who would be the mentor to drive home my mother's goal of getting me educated. His name was Saul Hassan.

In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital from 1966 to 1968 and then joined Ira Pastan's laboratory at the National Institutes of Health as a Clinical Associate.

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust.

People have quite a simple idea about 'Anna Karenina.' They feel that the novel is entirely about a young married woman who falls in love with a cavalry officer and leaves her husband after much agony, and pays the price for that.

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause to go to trial to then determine if Officer Wilson is guilty or not. It is at trial that he can then defend himself and his attorneys can present their own witnesses and their own defense.

One of the individuals was being held by a police officer, a uniformed officer who was protected, and it appears from the debrief that we have done overnight that the suspect managed to break free from the officer, the two of them have then literally, in fighting, gone into the kitchen area, where the suspect has managed to grab hold of a knife,

Myself and Officer Gibbs arrived on scene and observed a subject identified as Jeffrey Dudley holding another subject's head up as he was laying on the ground. The victim, James Jenkins, was bleeding profusely from his nose and mouth area.

I was the first officer to earn a degree.

Nobody saw anyone being handcuffed. Officer Gant was moving into a position of cover. He was coming around a planter with a tree in it. His view was partially obstructed when the shot was fired. Sgt. Reed was in the arrest process.

I would rather have my son picked up and put in jail than go to his funeral, ... If you know someone is using, find a police officer you trust and talk to them. Don't stick your head in the sand because it will get worse.

When the officer began to turn the defendant was at the top of hill looking down, ... Re-enactments show you could see the police car one-quarter mile away. There were no others on the road at 3 a.m.

Should this investigation prove the charges made by Mr. Jackson to be groundless, I will request that criminal charges of false report of peace officer misconduct be pursued against him,

One of the things I recommend is to call the Alliance Police Department. Every single officer cares about animals and wants to try and do what they can for them. Alliance is really a progressive community when it comes to animal cruelty and abuse.

No credible analysis of an accounting failure would suggest that the appropriate role of the chief executive officer was to substitute his own accounting judgments for those of the professionals.

Only a police officer can enforce handicapped rules. She has no permission to enforce handicapped rules.

No officer of the company has to sign or attest that the information in it is correct and there is no authority at the federal government level to enforce it. My best advice is if you can open and run your own business, do that instead of owning a franchise. Check out our website and see the potential problems with franchise agreement provisions and the problems that franchisees face.

No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitude occur in our system. Unfortunately, the reality is that they do.

One bad police officer makes a whole department and state look bad.

Morano identified the need for this training program in December, largely in part because of the incident involving officer McDermott and officer Diaz.

Monster's vision in centralizing the Diversity recruiting business and internal diversity workforce initiatives reflects the future progression of the function of the Chief Diversity Officer. Clearly, the companies that secure a competitive advantage will be those that assign diversity to their overall growth strategy. Assuming the role of Chief Diversity Officer for Monster, a visionary company that created the online recruiting industry, is truly exciting.

None of those situations are situations where an officer has time to think. It's someone else's actions that forces them to react. It's not that the officers are choosing to go to work to shoot somebody.

Maybe Mr. Cohen and his team of lawyers think that making fun of Chief Fong's Asian heritage or an officer running over a homeless person is funny or needs context. He should consider heeding the advice of his fellow officers and community leaders and stop trying to publicize and promote this stuff.

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.

(Police) formed a perimeter in the area, were just sort of watching the dog as he roamed around the yards, along with the fire department, who was on scene in case of any injuries. They watched the dog. The dog started to approach the officer in an aggressive manner, and the officer had to shoot the dog.

Neither the captain nor the first officer had any winter weather flying experience.

Obviously any time there is an allegation against a general officer of personal conduct, it's taken very seriously. It is looked into and examined and acted upon as appropriate.

Obviously, no one wants to go to jail, and a police officer going to jail is a concern to me. The judge has taken extra precautions, so I think he'll be safe.

When this first happened, actually the very first day we were home, I talked to the police officer and told him about this craft.

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Mr. Torres tried to kill Officer Brenda Bermudez.

She came back and she saw the police officer with her baby, asking people about the whereabouts of the mother of the baby. She became afraid due to the fact that she's an illegal immigrant.

Many times we have people walking here and they're not sure where go, so we have an officer here to kind of assist them with that. This is a pretty large building. So we kind of keep someone in the area in case someone gets lost and we can just help them get to where they need to go.

Secretary Albright asked the State Department's senior human rights officer to undertake the mission to further develop the administration's understanding of the dimensions of the conflict in Kosovo and to emphasize U.S. support for proponents of democracy as well as victims of human rights abuse in the region.

send a very clear message that drinking and being a police officer is a very dangerous combination.

Several witnesses describe seeing an altercation in the car between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson. It was described as wrestling, tug-of-war. Several other witnesses described Mr. Brown as punching Officer Wilson while Mr. Brown was partially inside the vehicle.

So I'm expecting the officer to come to my window, but a blaring light comes on and he starts blaring orders over a P.A. system for all the passengers in the car to get out with their hands in the air,

She was caught by a loss prevention officer at Wal-Mart.

HANGMAN, n. An officer of the law charged with duties of the highest dignity and utmost gravity, and held in hereditary disesteem by a populace having a criminal ancestry. In some of the American States his functions are now performed by an electrician, as in New Jersey, where executions by electricity have recently been ordered --the first instance known to this lexicographer of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen.

Hal is an talented chief financial officer who has made valuable contributions to the company, and we wish him well in the future,

Greenspan has done a good job of morphing himself into the nation's chief economic officer and chief investment officer. He's been elevated to the status where we can't cut taxes unless Greenspan says we can cut them.

I can't imagine anyone criticizing the contract officer who was constructive and made the system work to save lives.

I can't imagine what it would take to lure someone who is obviously qualified to be the chief financial officer of a $20 billion corporation. I have to believe they have people inside who are fully qualified to do the job.

If a citizen threatens an officer or another citizen with death or imminent bodily harm, an officer has to react. I think our (officer-involved shooting) level is not out of line.

I even told the officer we had a certificate of authenticity, but they were just boxing stuff up, taking it. It didn't matter.

If an officer rolled up on something that required his immediate attention and another officer or dispatcher was talking about their call at length that officer may be forced to exit his cruiser without telling another officer where he's at or what his problem is.

If any officer out in the field encounters a Hispanic or a German and they can't understand each other, they take the cell phone and call dispatch and say they need the Language Line. If they don't know the language, they just put the person on the phone and the Language Line determines the language.

I fail to understand why this officer (Surendra Sharma) is making such allegations against me. No police officer or superior officer had expressed their displeasure against me during the 40 years of my service.

If a law enforcement officer spotted one of the weapons, he could have taken it as a real gun.

If it's during the day and you feel safe, stay with the animal so the police officer can find you easily. Maybe put your car flashers on.

I believe the financial staff, if need be, will be able to appropriately defend our budget request. At the same, we need a chief financial officer who will be able to help the department make the most of its budget -- whatever that comes out to be,

Captain Wood and Officer Norton were speaking directly on behalf of the PBA,

I don't accept for any officer to even slap a prisoner,

Because of the information we have of the property in general being an officer safety location, we weren't going to risk anyone getting hurt.

Basically, it's a play being written right before your eyes -- sort of. The premise is that a retiring police officer has decided he's going to go off into a life of ease, and how he's going to do that is by writing a murder mystery like Agatha Christie.

I have a job to do, I'm an officer in the Army, and I've got my duty to do. We're truck drivers, we're targets -- big moving targets -- and it's scary.

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

We can confirm now that during his ... trip to the Czech Republic, he did have a contact with an officer of the Iraqi intelligence.

We're obviously concerned by these results, ... but, thank God, we're finding this out now rather than later, because this is a critical issue for officer safety, and the adverse effects could be horrible otherwise.

We're on the street from 7 o'clock in the morning to midnight every day of the week, except on Sundays when we're only out from 3:30 until midnight, and we only have one officer (that day).

I advised Officer Johnson to stop the patrol car, ... and when we stopped, traffic going the other way stopped, too. I think (Wheatley) thought he could drive between the traffic on the yellow line but he lost control. He left over 60 feet of skid marks.

He was a fairly high-ranking officer in the Libyan Intelligence Agency and his activities appeared to have, and can be reasoned to have, government involvement.

If someone asks you what you did with your life, there is not a better answer than to say I served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

If someone did something wrong, someone had to suffer. During air raids the Japanese would run to shelters. We'd look for food. We got caught one time. An officer laid his saber across my shoulder and took the guy behind me and chopped his head off.

He is going to get stopped every time a police officer looks at him because of his notoriety.

He was arrested after approaching an undercover officer who was sitting in his car and offering to perform a sex act.

He was a very quiet guy, but he had the heart of a lion. My kids loved him because he would do anything for them. They respected him not because he was a police officer but because of his personality.

He was trying to sell me a six percent loan. Then he told me there was a loan officer right there that would make my house payment six percent.

He would have to get permission and we would be very reluctant to give it. It's very offensive to us that he chose to take on the arresting officer the way he did verbally. And then the fact there was alcohol, even in the smallest way, involved.

His pre-trial officer wouldn't allow him to travel out of state.

He should either be running for office or be an impartial elections officer and not try to fool the voters that he can be both.

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

He flagged down the Miami Beach officer on duty there, and the officer was able to apprehend the subject.

He fought with the officer from the scene,

He got up. He had the gun. They ordered him to drop the gun. He refused to drop the gun, and that's when the officer shot him.

Joe's tremendous leadership throughout his six years as Koch Industries' president and chief operating officer gives us confidence he will deliver more of the same at Georgia-Pacific. Bill, during his 32 years with Koch, has done an exemplary job of building our operations excellence capability. I am certain Joe and Bill, along with the outstanding Georgia-Pacific team, will continue Georgia-Pacific's proud tradition.

Joe's tremendous leadership throughout his six years as president and chief operating officer gives us confidence he will deliver more of the same at Georgia-Pacific. In Bill's 32 years with Koch, he has done an exemplary job of building our operations excellence capability. I am certain Joe and Bill, along with the outstanding Georgia-Pacific team, will continue Georgia-Pacific's proud tradition.

My probation officer released me early ... because I complied with everything that he asked me to do.