Chris Hansen Quotes

The whole [sexual offender] register is a horrible mistake. I think it's utterly ridiculous to take teenage sex and make it a felony.

The government may set decoys to entrap criminals. But it may nor provoke or create a crime, and then punish the criminal, its creature.

You went online, to use a fisherman's expression, trolling for women to meet and have sex with. That seems to be part of our culture now: Meet, hook up, have sex, sayonara. Totally inappropriate behavior. There is no excuse for this whatsoever.

A federally paid sex policeman.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

If you get a call to go to a certain place in the middle of the night to pick up stolen goods, and it turns out the stolen goods don't show up but the cops show up, I think you're going to have a very weak story saying, 'Well, I got swindled here.'

For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger.

Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing.

I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama.

Don't get me wrong - I'll put $25 on the ground and then if you pick it up and we have sex in an alley, that's not a crime. That's a coincidence.

But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts.

My English teacher wanted to have sex with me in Junior High. The only problem was, my English teacher was a guy. I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler and stapled his nuts to a stack of papers.

I would say any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military.

Even now, as we speak, people are having sex with animals. And we wonder why the animals attack us.

With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

The rights of the people who have done terrible things are hard to defend. You have to keep pointing out, the question is the process to determine whether they've done the terrible things.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

I've laid out a platform that I think would begin to remedy some of the problems we have in the criminal justice system.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

I sent a girl a picture of my d - k. I don't know what it is with females. But I'm not too good with that s - t.

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

The laws do not take upon them to punish any other than overt acts.

Bill Clinton described himself as he's "the big dog." He's out hunting, and he found something. Some woman was emitting some, you know, come-to-me smell or whatever, and he was picking up on the scent.