Carrie Meek Quotes

#1. Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Carrie P. Meek

#2. If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

Carrie P. Meek

#3. America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

Carrie P. Meek

#4. Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

Oswald Chambers

#5. You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Carrie P. Meek

#6. ...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.

Jincy Willett

#7. You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

Carrie P. Meek

#8. Sometimes you don't get but one mistake, if the one you pick is bad enough.

Madison Smartt Bell

#9. I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

Lea Salonga

#10. Reagan would be well advised to find his conservatism in the Constitution rather than to adopt a conservative populism. If he does the latter, he is likely to discover that the radical means of populism will overcome and outlast the conservative ends.

Harvey Mansfield

#11. Death's gruesome face taunts:
soulless eyes, crimson grimace.
I really hate clowns.

Katherine Applegate

#12. Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie P. Meek

#13. Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.

Carrie P. Meek

#14. If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

Carrie P. Meek

#15. We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

Carrie P. Meek

#16. If you can boil it, steam it or braise it.. you can pressure cook it!

Laura Pazzaglia