Darryl Glenn Quotes

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?

In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.

If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

In all governments fear is recognized as one of the grounds for the enforcement of law. In even the freest nations and under the highest form of civilization the public opinion that administers law makes its demand partly in the interest of essential right, partly with the instinct of self-preservation against the forces of evil, and partly for the punishment of wrong. Punishment in itself is not reformatory; it is retributive; it is deterrent; it plays upon fear.

Let me remember, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.

Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws—but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted—when we tolerate what we know to be wrong—when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened—when we fail to speak up and speak out—we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.

As people, we have to take the law's side. We have to stand behind the police, not behind the criminal.

You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

It is time to go on the offense. Hold people accountable for the wrongdoings they do and commit against the American people, use the vestiges of the Constitution which gives us the outline of how we hold them accountable and make the Justice Department do their job.

There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.

You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.