Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes

I'd like to continue being involved with issues that animated my time as attorney general - criminal-justice reform and civil rights especially. I don't just want to give speeches; I'd like to involve myself in this work in a systematic way.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema.

We think it's OK for us to have the world's largest prison population and for one racial group to be overrepresented therein.

The people deemed too dangerous to release therefore become the very people released with no conditions and no supervision.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

The way to reform has always led through prison.

For every jail that Mr. Nixon would build, Mr. Humphrey would also build a house. For every policeman Mr. Wallace would hire, Mr. Humphrey would also hire a good teacher.

[In the French Revolution] there is much to approve and much to condemn…. An essential change was necessary for the happiness and dignity of a great people, long in a state of degradation.

The jails and prisons are the new insane asylums. That’s what we are.

Years now, decades, of visiting my parents behind bars taught me hard lessons about how broken the criminal justice system is - about how devoid of compassion it is. It's not healing the harm that victims experience. It's not rehabilitating people. And in many ways, it's making us less safe.

The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

When I look at what's going on in Charlotte, a city I love, a city where I have investments, when I look at what's going on throughout various parts of our country, whether it's - I mean, I can just keep naming them all day long - we need law and order in our country.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most is radical liberalism, leftism. And it is clear that they are making great strides in corrupting once-great institutions and once-great traditions.

The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

If we are tough on crime and on terrorism, as Labour is, then I think Britain will be safer under Labour.