Richard J. Daley Quotes

The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

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.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

Among practical men the idea prevails that government can do nothing but 'keep the peace”.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

Cops, the law's the law. You see somebody break it, you've got to be willing to enforce it. And doing that enhances the confrontational aspect of the whole circumstance. The more the confrontational aspect is ratcheted up the more danger is involved. It's gutsy work.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.

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

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.