Paul Gillmor Quotes

No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

The key for members of the public is that they want criminals to be punished. They want them taken off the streets. They also want criminals who come out of prison to go straight.

All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

We want our children to grow up in a safe community.

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.

I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address and it makes our communities less safe.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.