Trey Gowdy Quotes

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Any new legal measures, or cooperative arrangements between government and companies meant to keep people from organizing violence or criminal actions, must not be carried out in ways that erode due process, rule of law and the protection of innocent citizens' political and civil rights.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices.

We shall guard as zealously the rights of the striker as those of the employer. But when riot is menaced it is different. The mob takes its own chance. Order will be kept at whatever cost. If it comes to shooting we shall shoot to hit. No blank cartridges or firing over the head.

Self preservation is the first law of nature and governments.

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

Drug dealers need to understand a simple fact. You shoot a cop and you're going to be severely punished—fast. And if I had my way, I'd say with your life.

People want to kill people because they don't want them out on the street again.

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

Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention

Execute murderers, abortionists, accessories.

In a sense, the police power is but another name for the power of government.

The highest and ultimate political power is capital punishment.

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.