Police Quotes

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that!

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

The police are very mean people sometimes.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

Some people can handle alcohol. You know who you are. Some people can't handle alcohol. The police know who you are.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

I only get ill when I give up drugs... I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.

I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to Heaven You'll find no policemen there.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.