Crime Quotes

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

Cyber theft is the fastest growing crime in the United States by far.

Hillary Clinton's guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run for president.

We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

Decades of progress made in bringing down crime are now being reversed by this [Barack Obama] administration's rollback of criminal enforcement.

One way to reduce crime and save lives is to target criminals who use guns with tough mandatory minimums.

Congressman John Lewis should finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S. I can use all the help I can get!

We are going to be working very hard on the inner cities having to do with education, having to do with crime. We're going to try and fix as quickly as possible.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed with the crime and the problems, and it could be some sinister plot.

They [illegals] are bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.

We have to say what's happening. There is crime, as you know. There's a lot of crime and there's a lot of problems. But I think together [with Enrique Pena], we'll solve those problems.

I think it's ridiculous. I'm very much opposed to sanctuary cities. They breed crime, there's a lot of problems. If we have to, we'll defund.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

And though the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906 and there were ninety-four years to go.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

I don't think I have committed a crime outside the domain of the US.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who has (committed a crime), then I think we should do it.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

There is hardly any deviancy, no matter how reprehensible in one context, which is not extolled as a virtue in another. There are no natural crimes, only legal ones.

The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration.