Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.

Charles Sturt

In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.

Chris Christie

Quite frankly, we have seen liberal policies in cities like Chicago, like New York and others, have led to increased crime.

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Louis Stokes

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Lyndon Johnson

Where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Alan King

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.

Adlai E. Stevenson

This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

Unfortunately in tourism, perception is reality. Because if a tourist or visitor perceives it unsafe they are not going to come. So we've got to deal with both. I think the reality is we have a crime problem and we have to deal with it.

Asa Butterfield

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Deborah Ellis

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Let's make sure this senseless crime is not a waste.

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

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

Eion Bailey

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.

Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Stockwell Day

Since 1962, violent crimes have increased from about 219 per 100,000 people to over 1000 per 100,000 people-a 500% increase. Divorce has increased from 36 per 10,000 people to 250-a greater than 600% increase.

She issued citations to people who were legitimately handicapped. Their only crime was they didn't want to show her their ID card, and they had no obligation to.

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

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

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

David Harris

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

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.

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

Ben Jonson

He threatens many that hath injured one.

Aaron Eckhart

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

We need a plan. What's the plan? We don't have a plan. We need one. We need a master plan to fix traffic, water and crime problems. We need planning, planning, planning. I'm gonna make a plan, etc.

Jonathan Jakubowicz

Secuestro Express' has developed not only as a crime to obtain money but also as a way of social revenge.

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

Charles M. Blow

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

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