David Cone Quotes

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Mutilations of parts of Fingers, are proper to disable such as have abused their dexterous use of them, by Pocket-picking, Counterfeiting of Seals and Writings, etc. Mutilations of other parts, may serve to punish and prevent Adulteries, Rapes, Incests, etc. And the smaller Corporal pains, serve to punish those, who can pay no pecuniary mulcts.

There is little evidence that the length of a sentence, as opposed to its certainty, has significant deterrent effects. If we cut sentences in half across the board, there is no reason to believe we’d see an appreciable rise in crime, and over time we would most likely see a large drop in the prison population.

If I was a bad guy, I probably would be incarcerated.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.

The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

I don't do my job to catch the bad guys. Why would I want to do that? No, I do my job to make order out of chaos.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

The streets will get you in jail.

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

You know, in our country lately we're more interested in protecting the criminals than we are in making sure that we're strong and powerful and know what we're doing.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

Laws can't control the lawless.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?