“I didn't commit a crime. I didn't rape anybody. I didn't assault anybody. I didn't get a DUI. I mean, my God, there are celebrities that fucking kill people.”— Joyce Chen, rollingstone.com
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.”— Benjamin Harrison, amazon.com
“The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.”— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com
“I don't even care about cops. I wanna see more garbage men. It's much more important. All I wanna see are garbage trucks, garbage cans and garbage men. You're never gonna stop crime, we should at least be clean.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves—and now look at them. It's just a matter of time.”— Meyer Lansky, jewishcurrents.org
“A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one’s personal authority and always take full responsibility for one’s actions.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“I’m not going to lie and say that there is just one solution that will cut down on gang violence. We did it, though. We showed up and we cared. It is really that simple.”— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com
“This has always been the role of the black mother in the community. We watch the kids. All of them. This is that ‘village’ that we hear so much about but that has somehow been forgotten.”— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com
“I am a black, Jewish woman from Chicago. Since the truth about my city will never come out of this White House, I’ll tell it myself.”— Tamar Manasseh, nytimes.com
“There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. T…”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.”— Ron Paul, chron.com
“At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of chaos.”— Timothy Leary, en.wikiquote.org
“The old cliche must be updated: crime does not pay for the three victims of every crime-the victim, the taxpayer and the crook. Crime does pay, however, and handsomely, for the attorneys who produce the National Crime-Sin Show.”— Timothy Leary, archive.org