Criminals Quotes - Page 21

• In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

  Roy Barnes

  Years, Knowing, Firsts

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• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Bob Ney

  Risk, Information, Lax

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• One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Country, Book, People

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• There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

  Bill McCollum

  Punishment, United States, Needs

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• We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

  Lindsey Graham

  Letting Go, People, Trials

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• When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. But I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Character, Bully, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

  Kurt Huber

  Degrees, Levels, Privilege

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• Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

  Martin O'Malley

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  "Walker, O'Malley, Trumka". "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. June 10, 2012.

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• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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• Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Clothes, Ties, People

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• The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

  Martha Plimpton

  Real, Class, Office

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 3, 1999.

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

  Randy Quaid

  Wish, Actors, Presses

  "Quaid: 'I Am Not A Criminal'" by wenn.com, July 25, 2011.

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• One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.

  Chance the Rapper

  Song, Years, People

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• I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Law, Ideas, Elements

  "Elizabeth Strout on 'The Burgess Boys'". Interview with Dylan Foley, www.chicagotribune.com. March 23, 2013.

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• I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

  Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

  Disappear, Schemes, Policemen

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• The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Dirty, Circles, Heavyweights

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• The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

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• I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Mean, Vanity

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.156

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• It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.

  Chester Himes

  Gun, Men, Civilization

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• It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Dying, Insane, World

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.

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• We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been 'living in Laodicea,' lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Christian, Men, Lazy

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• There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Time, Pain, Blow

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• Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.

  Michael Savage

  Community, Hatred, Violence

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• Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of the administration of criminal justice. Thoroughly interdisciplinary, he brings to bear on his subject a remarkably wide range of sources. Most striking are his probing interviews with at-risk youths which provide a fascinating and rare glimpse into how they think about guns and gun carrying. This book bristles with insight and information.

  Randall Kennedy

  Book, Thinking, Gun

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