Amir Khan Quotes

It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

Kids need activities and role models to stay out of trouble.

I knew what could happen to my son if he was sent to the wrong school and got in with the wrong crowd.

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

What we have to do is stop children from killing children.

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

Children spend the greater part of their time outside the school. Here they come under the influence of the street and frequently of hostile hooligan elements. Questions concerning the organization of the children's out-of-school hours, the Young Pioneer movement, the provision of libraries and workshops and social work for the children, are of tremendous importance

Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.

I just want to make sports safe for our kids.

I will do everything possible to stop crimes against children.

If I wasn't playing basketball, I would be in the streets.

I went into criminal justice because I want to learn more about the law, about what's going on in this world, and be a mentor to kids from where I'm from.

As a kid I wanted to run away from home every time I got a scolding for being naughty but I never did. Knowing now what happens to unprotected kids on the streets I'm glad I didn't.

Why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children's show? See, I take having a kids' show real seriously. I think it's an enormous responsibility.

That's what I try to do, my wife and I, we try to, not shelter them [kids], but still not contribute to the delinquency of a minor.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

When you're worrying about crime rates, go help teach kids to read at a young age so that their chances for climbing out of poverty and achieving success in school and life go up.

Gangs are formed by kids who want love.

There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand that in online life, too.

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.