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.

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.

There is no level of crime that is so bad... that rights no longer exist.

Until there is some direct thing done to prevent crime before it happens, it is going to keep happening. If a curfew can prevent crime before it happens, so be it.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

William Shakespeare

He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

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,

Cesare Beccaria

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

We'll see what kind of victim it was, if it was a crime of opportunity or if someone who went out to lure a child.

We are also providing additional, enhanced services for gun crime victims and witnesses involved in these lengthy and large gun-crime prosecutions,

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

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.

Park Dietz

as most episodes of other crime dramas aired for the last 20 years.

All of us want to hold criminals accountable for what they doeveryone does. But the way that we're doing it is not the right way.

Jodie Foster

It's kind of about a vigilante, somebody who has been the victim of a crime and who can't quite get over it and then finds herself mowing people down.

It's encouraging to see that the Police Department is tackling this epidemic of murder and violent crime head-on,

Jerry Doyle

It's a shame people would stoop to this kind of thing. We have to look at these crimes and see if there is anything else we can do.

This is a familiar problem: people spending years in jail for crimes that didn't happen as a result of erroneous pathology.

This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely helpless,

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

It's not uncommon for these types of scams or crimes around this time of the year.

Charles Djou

It's one of those things that's a good idea. It's not going to solve our crime or homelessness problems, but it's a small, simple idea that's going to improve quality of life for people.

James Foley

It's about as an abominable a crime as one can imagine -- hostage-taking, cold-blooded murder of hostages.

It might have been a hate crime in this case.

It's a phenomenal piece of work by the cops, ... It's something that legends of crime busters are made of. It just really is.

It's a vicious and ugly reminder of anti-gay prejudice. What is unique about hate crimes is that they terrorize the whole community.

Val McDermid

I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

As a result of these kinds of cases, the joint task force is working effectively towards preventing these kinds of crime from occurring in the future and intercepting the money before it goes to its intended recipient.