Daryl Gates Quotes

#1. It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Daryl Gates

#2. When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say.

Andy Rooney

#3. They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

Daryl Gates

#4. We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.

Lysa TerKeurst

#5. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Emil Cioran

#6. We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Daryl Gates

#7. If you really want to seriously piss some people off, follow your heart.

Gregor Collins

#8. We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

Daryl Gates

#9. No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

Daryl Gates

#10. They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Daryl Gates

#11. The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

Dean Koontz

#12. There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

Daryl Gates

#13. No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

Daryl Gates

#14. I think the pop chart today is entirely market-driven. And it has nothing to do with public taste. And it has nothing to do with moving music forward. It's simply a market chart.

Morrissey

#15. Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

Daryl Gates

#16. Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Charles Baudelaire

#17. Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

Daryl Gates

#18. We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

Daryl Gates