Arthur J. Kropp Quotes

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.

Catch me if you can -A

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

Well, I'm a former FBI agent.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

Despite high profile examples of local authorities been tried, convicted, and sometimes even executed for corruption, many officials simply calculate that the payoff for malfeasance is worth the risk of being caught.

The fact is the condition of affairs in Dodge, instead of improving, as I had hoped, seems to be growing worse. I hear, every now and then, of robberies committed on innocent strangers, who have come to Kansas to seek homes. Visitors inform me that the saloons are increasing, not only in numbers, but in depravity; and that thieves, desperadoes, gamblers and criminals generally, are multiplying. It is also alleged that these lawless characters dominate in the city; that they have terrorized all the better elements of society; that they openly and defiantly flaunt their viciousness and depravity; and that they appear to think there is no power or authority that can reach or punish them.

Meese was a sleaze.

We have before us in the White House … a criminal—known to be armed and dangerous.

Drug people are the very vermin of humanity.... Occasionally we must adopt their dress and tactics.

Shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city.

It has been a steeple chase, I fleeing and they pursuing.