"I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men."
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"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
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"A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country."
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"A functioning police state needs no police."
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"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit"
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"When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police."
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"Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty."
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"The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way.""
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"The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it."
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"Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings."
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"The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence."
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"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."
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"I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime."
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"HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English."
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"It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect."
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"Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow."
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"I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us."
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"And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne."
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"Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy."
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"In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved."
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