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Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Quotes by Geoff Mulgan

This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.

Quotes by Gary Johnson

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

Quotes by Gary Johnson

By bringing about a rational drug policy, we'd be freeing up a lot of resources for real crime. Drug disputes would get played out with courts rather than with guns. So it would make this country a much better place overnight.

Quotes by Gary Johnson

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

Quotes by Garry Disher

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Quotes by Garry Disher

Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

Quotes by Gabrielle Giffords

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

Quotes by G. Gordon Liddy

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Quotes by Friedrich Engels

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Quotes by Frederick Soddy

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.

Quotes by Freda Adler

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Quotes by Freda Adler

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

Quotes by Frankie Valli

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Quotes by Frank Serpico

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Quotes by Frank Abagnale

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

Quotes by Francis Maude

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

Quotes by Foxy Brown

They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

Quotes by Florence King

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

I can't think whether I've actually interviewed the widow of a crime suspect. Obviously, I've interviewed members of the families of people who've been accused of things.

Quotes by Fiona Barton

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

I'm going to go after crime and corruption wherever it is. But I did focus particularly on the need to restore public confidence in essential institutions of both the public and private sector.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main Street. I'm going to go after crime and corruption, wherever it is.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.

Quotes by Eric Garcetti

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

Quotes by Emmanuel Teney

I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

Quotes by Emmanuelle Beart

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime.

Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what I decided to write.

Quotes by Emma Healey

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Quotes by Emma Goldman

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

Quotes by Emilia Fox

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Quotes by Emil Cioran

Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to some of the money they spend on equipment, they wouldn't have to turn to a life of crime.

Quotes by Elvis Mitchell

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.

Quotes by Elliott Abrams

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Quotes by Elizabeth Fry

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

Quotes by Egon Schiele

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

Quotes by Edward Coke

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Quotes by Edward Blake

A lapse in judgment is not a crime.

Quotes by Eddie Perez

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Quotes by Earl Warren

'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

Quotes by Dylan McDermott

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

Quotes by Duncan Hunter

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.

Quotes by Drew Carey

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Quotes by Dorothea Dix

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Quotes by Donna Leon

Control orders put people not convicted of any crime under virtual house arrest based on scant evidence. Billed as a security backstop, they proved unreliable.

Quotes by Dominic Raab

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Quotes by Dito Montiel

I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.

Quotes by Dick Van Patten

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

Quotes by Dick Francis

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Quotes by Diane Setterfield

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

Quotes by Diane Mott Davidson

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

Quotes by Diane Mott Davidson

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

Quotes by Diane Abbott

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Quotes by Diane Abbott

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus

I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Quotes by Dev Hynes

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

Quotes by Denise Mina

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Quotes by Denise Mina

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Quotes by Denise Mina

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Quotes by Denise Mina

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Quotes by Denise Mina

To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

Quotes by David Warner

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Quotes by David Mitchell

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

Quotes by David Mamet

Foreign policy is inseparable from domestic policy now. Is terrorism foreign policy or domestic policy? It's both. It's the same with crime, with the economy, climate change.

Quotes by David Miliband

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

Quotes by David Lloyd

I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.

Quotes by David Lagercrantz

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

Quotes by David Lagercrantz

I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?

Quotes by David Lagercrantz

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

Quotes by David Icke

I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'

Quotes by David Harewood

I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

Quotes by David Grann

New York has a strong focus on the migration of immigrants, and there is a crime element there and even an underbelly, but Chicago is a much harder and more brazen city.

Quotes by David Eigenberg

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

Quotes by David Dinkins

The Home Office culture was one of being just above the problem, of hovering just out of reach of knowing what was going on on the ground, whether it was crime or immigration.

Quotes by David Blunkett

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.

Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.

Quotes by Daniel Goldstein

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

Assessing any possible threat is one thing, but pressing into a full investigation without facts of a crime or national security threat violates standard procedure.

Quotes by Dan Bongino

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Quotes by Cyril Connolly

The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole.

Quotes by Corrine Brown

If somebody is here illegally, and they commit a crime, chances are they're going to commit another one. So let's get rid of them.

Quotes by Corey Stewart

Here are the facts: In 2007, I led Prince William County in adopting a policy of (1) inquiring into the immigration status of every person arrested for a crime; and (2) implementing the federal 287(g) program, which deputizes County Jail officers to determine the immigration status of every inmate.

Quotes by Corey Stewart

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Quotes by Clint Eastwood

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

Quotes by Cliff Stearns

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

Quotes by Cliff Stearns

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

Quotes by Clare-Hope Ashitey

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Quotes by Chuck Todd

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

Quotes by Christopher Lasch

The queen of crime, Agatha Christie, was always more concerned about the clockwork cleverness of the plot, never the investigator.

Quotes by Christopher Fowler

Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

Quotes by Christopher Fowler

All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene.

Quotes by Christopher Darden

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