Quotes About The Police Force

#1. When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.

Parul Sehgal

#2. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...

Ravi Howard

#3. Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.

Leonard Read

#4. Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.

Nicolas Maduro

#5. The police force in America pledge to "protect and serve." That would actually be dandy if it were happening. Bill Hicks used to joke that he'd like to hijack a typically unpunctual plane and force it to go to its scheduled destination on time.

Russell Brand

#6. When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

Jerry Doyle

#7. I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

David Icke

#8. The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

P. Chidambaram

#9. Grandeur. chapter seventeen Harrison Tibble was a thirty-five-year vet on the police force.

J.D. Robb

#10. The
experience he'd gained during his years in the police force
had given him this unambiguous answer: there are no
murderers. Only ordinary people who commit murder

Henning Mankell

#11. I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

John Waters

#12. Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.

John Hagee

#13. It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

Kin Hubbard

#14. The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

Michael O'Leary

#15. When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government.

David Lloyd

#16. I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

Denis Kearney

#17. In the police force, two, three, five traitors are detected who are really working for someone else. When we cleanse the police of them, the problem will be simplified a lot. Terrorists will have no one to contact - they will be left without informers.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#18. It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.

Ethan Hawke

#19. For some stupid reason, I had this irrational need to prove to Cooper that I could inspect dead bodies over black coffee and maple bars just like him and the other guys on the police force.
(Violet Parker)

Ann Charles

#20. We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.

Enrico Colantoni

#21. Passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions
a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

Caroline Gordon

#22. I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

Thomas Mapfumo

#23. My two sisters were always cooking. I wanted to be in the police force, but I didn't get in because I just so happened to procrastinate a bit, and I hadn't gotten my application in at the right time.

April Bloomfield

#24. Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

Russell Crowe

#25. We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner ... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

George H. W. Bush

#26. New York police force seems like unlike any other in America and even the world. There's a very specific culture dynamic, a specific chemistry. There's almost a specific set of rules because of the city and the size of it.

Theo James

#27. What my parents taught me was that the hallmark of a thriving democracy was an effective and respectful police force.

Thomas Perez

#28. The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Elihu Root

#29. Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

Peter Watts

#30. So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus

Harper Lee

#31. The P.C. police are out in force at all times ... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

Ben Carson

#32. In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

Theodore Roosevelt

#33. Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public

Kenneth Eade

#34. Power depends ultimately on physical force. By teaching people that violence is wrong (except, of course, when the system itself uses violence via the police or the military), the system maintains its monopoly on physical force and thus keeps all power in its own hands.

Theodore Kaczynski

#35. Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.

Eric Holder

#36. The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

Harry S. Truman

#37. Nevertheless, I do know that we are part of a danger zone, we have military operations in Afghanistan and we're training the Iraqi police force. The terrorists also have us in their sights.

Otto Schily

#38. FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

Joe Orton

#39. In essence, Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.

Gore Vidal

#40. If the new military elite is anything like the old one, it would, in any great crisis, tend to side with the Old Order and defend the status quo, if necessary, by force. In the words of the standard police bulletin known to all radio listeners, These men are armed -and they may be dangerous.

Ferdinand Lundberg

#41. The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

John Boehner

#42. The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

Tammy Bruce

#43. I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

Theresa May

#44. The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

Leonard Read

#45. This police force consisted--of slaves. The free Athenian regarded this police duty as so degrading that he preferred being arrested by an armed slave rather than lending himself to such an ignominious service.

Friedrich Engels

#46. Once the people are terrorized, you can force a police state on them.

Mae Brussell

#47. Holy fuck. What a buncha stupid white boys. Why don't they just invite the whole fucking police force into the bar? Avery this has gotta stop. Like now

H.M. Ward

#48. The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

John Abizaid

#49. Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.

Heather Brooke

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

Sheikh Hasina

#51. I do the math. On one side: Anderson, the entire police force, the media, and most likely the pope himself. On the other side, my innocence. This does not add up to a terribly encouraging bottom line.

Jeff Lindsay

#52. Why did I join the force? I repeat, - Oh I'd have to say that it was due to police oppression. I'd witnessed it within my own community and decided that it was something I wanted to be part of, I smile.

Irvine Welsh

#53. A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Steven Pinker

#54. The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of the mystery - and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.

Janet Malcolm

#55. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Albert Camus

#56. 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.

Rodney King

#57. We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

Akhmad Kadyrov

#58. Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Anton Chekhov

#59. Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force.

J.G. Ballard

#60. Forget the Syria debate; we need a debate on why we are always debating on whether to bomb someone. Because we're starting to look not so much like the world's police men but more like George Zimmerman. Itching to use force and then pretending it's because we had no choice.

Bill Maher

#61. And power is a game of smoke and mirrors,' said her ladyship, reaching for the wine. 'Oddly enough, Commander Vimes reminds me of that nearly every day. No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that. Yes?

Terry Pratchett

#62. I went to Ferguson and walked with the demonstrators and saw this heavily armed police force, tactical units pointing sniper rifles at my constituents who were there exercising their constitutional rights.

William Lacy Clay Jr.

#63. The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools

John Dewey

#64. Every woman wants to be wanted - just not by the entire Metropolitan police force.

Kathy Lette

#65. 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.

Raymond Kelly

#66. Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

Richard M. Nixon

#67. It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

Felix Frankfurter

#68. Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

Loretta Lynch

#69. We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

William Howard Taft

#70. As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.

Jack Benny

#71. As Kate had told her Oma the night before, there was no society more viciously controlled by rumor than your local police force.

Karin Slaughter

#72. It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

Jack Lynch

#73. Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#74. The back door blew out from the limo, winging across the road at such a force that it ripped right through a Luxen in a police uniform. Like, one Luxen suddenly became two not-so-put-together Luxen.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#75. The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

Otto Schily

#76. The line between "police force" and "army" is narrow under the best of circumstances.

Mira Grant

#77. The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

Neil Peart

#78. We still have time to back out, I guess, if we want to. I don't see the karmic police coming to take us into existential custody, y'know?

David Berger

#79. Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.

Hakeem Jeffries

#80. If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

Leon Panetta

#81. All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave spontaneously.

Ludwig Von Mises