Paul Watson Quotes

Everybody does good things, but I'm talking about making major changes in the educational system that would impact an entire race. I'm talking about stopping these young gang members from killing one another. I'm talking about keeping prisons from overflowing.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them shoot people.

I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

Knife crime devastates communities.

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

That’s why these kids get into so much trouble. They don’t have anything to do.

If it was up to me, frankly I would be hanging some of the gang leaders from our street lamps.

For all the things that make Chicago great, for all the things that make us proud to call ourselves Chicagoans, the violence that is happening corrodes our core. It is not the Chicago we know and love.

A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Gun violence is a plague in all of our communities, and we must come together to stop it.

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.

I don't think the public want to see loads and loads of firearms officers everywhere, what they do want to know is that we are able to respond well and prevent things and we will protect them properly.

In my case, I give a lot to animal welfare because I think that's pretty neglected in America.

Trayvon Martin broke my heart.

The problem of gun violence goes beyond the countless demographic differences between people.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.

My older six are animals.

People should not have to worry about violence in their own neighbourhoods, but sadly, that is a reality that more and more Canadians face.

Our streets should be safe at all times. You shouldn't have to worry about things like knife or other crime.

We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.