- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police Quotes
Different views on a subject everyone has an opinion about.
This collection covers police from several angles: budget and staffing debates in major cities, a lighthearted childhood memory involving a runaway student, and a firsthand account of an outnumbered force facing a hostile crowd. Related reading: Law.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave got out of line or tried to break away and escape, these were the people to hold them in and bring them back.
- Disciplinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
- Dogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration made it illegal for me to loan any money to anyone in the military. I have one compliance guy just for a pawn shop. It's everything from Homeland Security, FBI, the local police department, IRS - all these regulations I have to keep an eye on constantly, and it's just overwhelming for a small business.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.
- Fireman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fireman very early on in my life and a police officer, so I'm very militaristic, clean.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.
- Disorder
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- Nov 07, 2020
The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
- Egyptian
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- Nov 07, 2020