Kirstjen Nielsen Quotes

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

We are in a state of emergency. Here in Texas, we are not afraid of ISIS. We are afraid of the police.

If you're riding down somewhere, and a cop stops you and starts to put you under arrest, even though you haven't committed any crime, go to jail. Mississippi is not the place to start conducting constitutional law classes for the policemen, many of whom don't have a fifth-grade education.

Police Against the New World Order

I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction.

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

There's nothing wrong with this country that we couldn't cure by turning it over to the police for a couple of weeks.

There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don’t like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed … It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people …

The term "free society" is a meaningless, empty phrase if it does not mean a society that is free from harassment from its own police.

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.