Martin Amis Quotes

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

I think people really don't like cops so much; they're kind of rude to them or treat them like they can't see them.

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

It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.

There's plenty of law at the end of a nightstick

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

People are used to watching cop shows in which the cops are very straight down the line and they solve the crimes, but I think people actually have a much more sophisticated and varied view of the police.

People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety and that animosity isn't as strong in other places as it is in the U.S., partially because the police are armed here.

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.