Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dr. Dre

I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?

Dick Gregory

When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Walmart right next to them.

Jeff Merkley

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

Herman Melville

When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.

Jim Butcher

Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, "Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies." "You, may be," Thomas said, sneering. "I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky." "You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you," Molly said tartly.

Ja Rule

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

Hunter S. Thompson

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

Sarah Palin

I would have waived the Jones Act, and some unions not might not like it, not union membership, but the union leaders, too many, who are thugs.

Tupac Shakur

I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

Bernie Sanders

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

Clayton Christensen

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

Ambrose Bierce

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

Alfred Hitchcock

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Robert A. Heinlein

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

Stephen Harper

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

Steven Seagal

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

Nathan Gonzales

Does corruption make it closer? I think it does. But Democrats still think this district is tough.

Sylvia Schenk

Corruption is not just a German issue, but an international one.

Stephen Harper

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

Jim Letten

Louisiana is famous, if not infamous, for its corruption.

Allan Hoffenblum

Look, the muscle magazine thing was just stupid and he doesn't want to talk about his past womanizing. He's made a lot of mistakes, but corruption is not one of them.

Iyad Allawi

I don't think it is fair at all that we should shift the focus from the corruption during Saddam's time and from the corruption that prevailed before sovereignty was transferred to the Iraqis to a period of six months when I was prime minister,

Nancy Pelosi

For more than a decade... House Republicans have benefited from their systemic culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.

Mikhail Saakashvili

He understood the shortcoming which we had. He understood we had corruption.

Joseph King

Most police corruption is to look the other way, and to protect someone -- not to do jobs.