Rasika Dugal Quotes

You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

Crime is sexy.

'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.

We never had a female predator surface in our investigation.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

Crime generally punishes itself.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

Men have to be reminded that women exist.

You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

Unfortunately, the truth is that people do go scot-free and it's unfair. A lot of the top drug people who have been arrested are also free.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.