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To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

Quotes by Sonja Sohn

In 1918, a police chief of Jerusalem was a Montefiore.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Quotes by Sidney Sheldon

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Quotes by Sheikh Hasina

To an extent I agree that the FA hasn't done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it's hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening.

Quotes by Shaun Wright-Phillips

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't have. Obviously got divorced right away. Reached the glass ceiling in the police precinct. So there is a part of her that died because she knows she couldn't go any farther.

Quotes by Sharon Gless

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.

Quotes by Seymour Hersh

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

Quotes by Serge Lang

I'm sick of watching 'Blue Lives Matter' supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.

Quotes by Seph Lawless

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

Quotes by Seph Lawless

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

Quotes by Seph Lawless

In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor. No training was given to priests, teachers, police officers or others who worked regularly with children about how to respond appropriately should such allegations be made.

Quotes by Sean Brady

I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

Quotes by Scott Walker

It's expensive to police the world.

Quotes by Scott DesJarlais

In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a negative role, and Nirupama Roy was the on-screen mother. All this had its own charm. There was a fixed casting.

Quotes by Satish Kaushik

Surveillance has long been theorized as a way to control the surveilled - namely, by getting them to police themselves out of fear of being watched.

Quotes by Sarah Jeong

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

Quotes by Samantha Power

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Quotes by Samantha Power

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

Quotes by Sam Jaeger

If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

Quotes by Sal Albanese

Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move.

Quotes by Ryan Coogler

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

Quotes by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Quotes by Russell Brand

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

Quotes by Rudy Giuliani

There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.

Quotes by Rudy Giuliani

I remember turning onto the street. I saw barricades and police officers and, just, people everywhere. When I saw all of that, I immediately thought that it was Mardi Gras. I had no idea that they were here to keep me out of the school.

Quotes by Ruby Bridges

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

Quotes by Ronnie Barker

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Quotes by Ronnie Barker

I quit working in the police force full time only after I won my third Mr. Olympia.

Quotes by Ronnie Coleman

Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

Quotes by Ron Wyden

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

Quotes by Ron Wyden

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

Quotes by Ron Paul

When I was the detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department, in 1978, I launched an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan, a chapter that was forming and trying to expand, in my city.

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

I joined the police force with one motivation in mind: to become a high school PE teacher. After a year of working, I realized that a) I was making twice as much money as I would in the teaching profession, and b) I was having too much fun. I stuck it out for 32 years and no regrets.

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

I don't have much faith... in the government police.

Quotes by Roger Ver

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

Quotes by Rodney King

I was going nine times a week. You get to a point where you don't really know who you are. You're running on high octane, and you'll take all comers in every arena because there was no police. Every arena, you'd take on everybody that would come in the ring.

Quotes by Roddy Piper

We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.

Quotes by Rocky Carroll

'Dream Police' was in the can and ready to go when 'Budokan' started taking off worldwide, sales-wise.

Quotes by Robin Zander

I think we've got three that we have to play, and that would be 'Surrender,' 'Dream Police' and 'I Want You to Want Me.'

Quotes by Robin Zander

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it.

Quotes by Robert Wagner

I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police.

Quotes by Robert Stack

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

Quotes by Robert Reich

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.

Quotes by Robert P. McCulloch

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Quotes by Robert Peel

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.

Quotes by Robert Lacey

People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave got out of line or tried to break away and escape, these were the people to hold them in and bring them back.

Quotes by Robert Glasper

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Quotes by Robert Darnton

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

Quotes by Robert Crais

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

Quotes by Robert Blake

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

Quotes by Robert Bourassa

The Obama administration made it illegal for me to loan any money to anyone in the military. I have one compliance guy just for a pawn shop. It's everything from Homeland Security, FBI, the local police department, IRS - all these regulations I have to keep an eye on constantly, and it's just overwhelming for a small business.

Quotes by Rick Harrison

Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.

Quotes by Rick Atkinson

Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.

Quotes by Richard Stanley

When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

Quotes by Richard Simmons

I was a fireman very early on in my life and a police officer, so I'm very militaristic, clean.

Quotes by Richard Rawlings

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Quotes by Richard Perle

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

Quotes by Richard M. Daley

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Quotes by Richard Leakey

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

Quotes by Richard J. Daley

Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.

Quotes by Richard Engel

There was an insurgency under President Hosni Mubarak in the 1990s. Egyptian police and soldiers fought weekly battles with Islamists in the sugarcane fields and thick reeds along the Nile in rural southern villages like Minya, Sohag, Enna and Assiout.

Quotes by Richard Engel

There weren't many weapons in Egypt in the 1990s. Police controls on guns were very strict back then. That is no longer the case in Egypt today.

Quotes by Richard Engel

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

Quotes by Ricardo Lagos

I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

Quotes by Reginald VelJohnson

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

Quotes by Reese Witherspoon

I tried moving to the more white area, but I found that every night I was getting harassed by police.

Quotes by Redman

In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.

Quotes by Raymond Kelly

I have also done a web show called 'Delhi Police'. It is about the investigation around the Nirbhaya case. It is also very path-breaking and interesting.

Quotes by Rasika Dugal

One of my favorite outfits is one I picked up on a trip to Chandigarh. I've worn it once and am skeptical about wearing it again in spite of loving it so much, thanks to the 'fashion police' who won't wait a second to splash it out in the papers or feature me in the 'same to same' blog.

Quotes by Raveena Tandon

What is the obsession with not repeating clothes or making appearances that have been similar to the one's we've made in the past? Why is the fashion police so intense? What do they expect from us? What kind of pressure is this?

Quotes by Raveena Tandon

When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.

Quotes by Randi Weingarten

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Quotes by Ramsey Clark

Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.

Quotes by Rachel Dolezal

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

Quotes by Priti Patel

I want the country to be proud of our police.

Quotes by Priti Patel

The police in Punjab has been politicised; it has become a wing of the Akali Dal.

Quotes by Preneet Kaur

Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.

Quotes by Peter T. King

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

Quotes by Peter Sis

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

Quotes by Peter Sotos

What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

Quotes by Peter Hitchens

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Quotes by Peter James

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

Quotes by Peter James

There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.

Quotes by Peter James

In about 1975-76, I lived with a woman in a little hut with some fruit trees, and I had some of the most extraordinary, happy times of my life. Apart from the horrendous Queensland police, who were corrupt and venal, it really was like living in paradise.

Quotes by Peter Carey

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

Quotes by Pete Buttigieg

I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.

Quotes by Pedro Pascal

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

Quotes by Paul Mooney

First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford.

Quotes by Paul Michael Glaser

I'm Not Afraid of the Police' is the first song I wrote and recorded since moving back to Los Angeles. It's a loud-pop, crazy-guitar, big-harmony song with all the police sirens created by guitars and ADA flangers.

Quotes by Paul Gilbert

If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do it for him, and fewer people would have to die.

Quotes by Paul Bloom

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the ones who are supposed to stop it.

Quotes by Paul Bremer

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.

Quotes by Paul Cellucci

We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

Quotes by Paul Cellucci

Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.

Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

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