Cop Quotes - Page 3

• The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Police, Onions, Fields

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

  Dudley Moore

  Views, Mirrors, Safety

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• As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

  Dave Reichert

  Law, Appreciate, Honor

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• People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

  Christopher Meloni

  Dog, Vegas, Blue

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• The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Real, Onions, Fields

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• Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

  James Carville

  Government, Political, Police

  James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

  Bruce Willis

  Thinking, Law, People

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. June 11, 2007.

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• I’ll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Waiting, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.58, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Police, Needs, Eating

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.212, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Years, Justice

  "Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?". www.rollingstone.com. February 16, 2011.

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• There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

  Bobby Seale

  Heart, White, Persons

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• Cop families have guns in their houses.

  Amy Carlson

  Gun, House

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• My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

  Dan Savage

  Running, Depressing, Dad

  "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.

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• I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

  Amy Sedaris

  Book, Play, Crime

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• It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

  Ludacris

  Manipulate, Crooked

  "Akon, Ludacris Say Rick Ross Should Brush Off Rumors Of Prison-Guard Past" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.

  Ja Rule

  Beverly Hills, Heroic, Breaths

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  Laura Linney

  Intelligent, Casting, Groups

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• I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Understanding, Lines, Share

  "Ryan Reynolds: ‘I Have Daddy Issues’". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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• When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Dad, Calling, Your Dad

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• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Please don’t let it be another cop. I’m outta bail money. Wait a minute…I could sell you on eBay and make a killing. (Mark) Not in my current condition. You’d have to sell Caleb or Madaug. I’m sure there’s someone willing to buy two perfectly good white boys. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Perfectly Good, Ebay

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• I get it,' said the prisoner. 'Good Cop, Bad Cop, eh?' If you like.' said Vimes. 'But we're a bit short staffed here, so if I give you a cigarette would you mind kicking yourself in the teeth?

  Terry Pratchett

  Giving, Mind, Teeth

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• If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Ifs

  "Wrapping our minds around the Noah story in the Bible". blogs.chicagotribune.com. March 18, 2014.

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• In this state, dig it, you get twenty years for sale of dope to a minor. You only get five to ten for manslaughter. So like, the thing is, if you're selling to a kid and cops come, shoot the kid real quick!

  Abbie Hoffman

  Real, Kids, Dope

  "Chicago". Record on the spoken word album "Wake Up America!", 1971.

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