Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

It's tough on somebody who is a elected official to talk sense about crime

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.

We need law enforcement as the ultimate deterrent to stop irresponsible and rash young people from making mistakes that will harm others and themselves. Put bluntly, we need them to be scared of getting caught and of getting punished.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.

You know, some things you can't change, but you can start from the youth to change the future.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

In my view, one of the major reasons that we have so many people in jail is that we have turned our backs on a lot young people.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.

The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.

I was recruited by my family the day after the presidential election. My daughters were visually upset at the results and asked, ‘what are we going to do?’ I told my wife Christie that they were right, I had to do something. It was my time to step up and serve.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

We cannot just say law and order. We have to say - we have to come forward with a plan that is going to divert people from the criminal justice system, deal with mandatory minimum sentences, which have put too many people away for too long for doing too little.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.