Political Criminal Quotes

#1. I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

Adolf Hitler

#2. The political criminal is the victim of an attempt of a more or less despotic government to preserve its own stability. He is not necessarily guilty of an unsocial offense; he simply tries to overturn a certain political order which may itself be anti-social.

Emma Goldman

#3. You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life.

Brian Tracy

#4. I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.

Assata Shakur

#5. I worked with Mikhail Saakashvili for more than six years. I was his right-hand man. He never accused me of anything during that time. But the minute I switched to the opposition, I was suddenly called a criminal. It was a political maneuver.

Irakli Okruashvili

#6. Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

Ozzy Osbourne

#7. If you remove the fear of criminal punishment for the nation's political and financial elites - as we have done - what possible constraint on their behavior does anyone think will remain?

Glenn Greenwald

#8. Momma, a welfare cheater. A criminal who couldn't stand to se her kids go hungry, or grow up in slumbs and end up mugging people in dar corners. I guess the system didn't want her to get off relief, the way it kept sending social workers around to be sure Momma wasn't trying to make things better.

Dick Gregory

#9. Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS's behavior "inappropriate. " No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.

George Will

#10. I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

Cory Booker

#11. The only thing I have to give to make you smile, to win you with, are all the mornings still to live.

Joni Mitchell

#12. There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Kris Kristofferson

#13. They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

Will Rogers

#14. Ben Crenshaws, Ive got a good feeling speech.

Steve Norman

#15. I want happiness. Stability. Some career milestones to be proud of, people around me who make me laugh, and the ability to go to bed each night and think, 'I made a difference for someone.

Tawna Fenske

#16. Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#17. There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

Mark Twain

#18. babe, it must be art

Bono

#19. Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn't going.

Warren Sapp

#20. Mike Stanton is our preeminent aficionado and raconteur of Rhode Island's flamboyantly criminal political follies, and The Prince of Providence is the chronicle of a great American rogue, Mayor Buddy Cianci - a paragon of charisma and corruption.

Philip Gourevitch

#21. At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of a former president in the criminal dock as our country moved into its bicentennial year was profoundly disturbing.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#22. Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

#23. Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.

Scott Shane

#24. A military without political training is a potential criminal.

Thomas Sankara

#25. Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.

Thomas Sankara

#26. This ... hole in the world, man-shaped. Me-shaped. A vacancy.

Jasinda Wilder

#27. The less we know the more we suspect

Josh Billings

#28. I thought I told you I didn't want to talk to you, Mr. Dresden."
"I like women who play hard to get.

Jim Butcher

#29. Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

W. H. Auden

#30. I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Hillary Clinton

#31. And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.

Ralph Ellison

#32. I'd had three great pregnancies. I thought morning sickness was the end of the world, and it's not until something pretty major happens that you're like, oh my gosh those were all a piece of cake. I had a pretty large bleed. I thought I was having a miscarriage.

Tori Spelling

#33. No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enforce criminal statutes implies substantial unanimity in the community. This is the result of the jury system. Hence the futility of party prohibition.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#34. And lock your hands to the table so they don't flail around or touch your hair.

Kate White

#35. If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.

Ulrike Meinhof

#36. You show me ten men who cherish some religious doctrine or political ideology, and I'll show you nine men whose minds are utterly impervious to any factual evidence which contradicts their beliefs, and who regard the producer of such evidence as a criminal who ought to be suppressed.

H. Beam Piper

#37. Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal "no". As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

Fatou Bensouda

#38. Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

Karl Marx