Molly Ivins Quotes

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

We want our children to grow up in a safe community.

When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

It is better to support schools than jails.

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

It is vastly cheaper to build schoolhouses than jails.

Early childhood education packs a real wallop in terms of the return on the investment.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.

I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address and it makes our communities less safe.

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids.

If we invest in jobs for our kids and do our best to keep them in school, we will end up saving a whole lot of lives and whole lot of money.

Companionate Conservatism - Making the streets safer before people are kicked out onto them.