Yancy Butler Quotes

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

America's Most Wanted? I love it when there's a guy in the back seat pounding his head on the plexiglas. That to me is the best.

Targets don't fight crime.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

Crime is contagious.

One of the best magistrates as minister, and a good sharp thief-taker for [foreign] secretary

If you allow young folk to be abominably brought up and their characters corrupted little by little, from childhood; and if then you punish them as grown-ups for committing the crimes to which their training has consistently inclined them, what else is this, I ask, but first making thieves and then punishing them for it?

Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

The problem is that we have evil people who try to skirt the laws. And that's the problem.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades.

You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually really liked college. I wasn't aware enough to know that the junior high I was suffering through would be school at its worst.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.