Jeff Cooper Quotes

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

Bloody Ground

I am ready to fight. My people are killed, my horses stolen; I am satisfied to fight.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

I've always wanted to make a film about the Tong Wars, the rioting and the crime factions in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early part of the last century.

America's a gangbanger country. We got our gang, and everything else is irrelevant.

I know now that gang warfare is not the Middle East or Northern Ireland. There is violence in gang violence, but there is no conflict. It is not 'about something.' It is the language of the despondent and traumatized.

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops.

I lost a lot of homeboys growing up, a lot of family, at early ages.

The problems of gang crime you find in some parts of the north are little different to the problems you find on the streets of south London.

'Clockers' - as much as it is a very focused crime drama, it sprawls.

'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.

I grew up in the inner city. It wasn't a joke.

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

It's senseless. I've lost several uncles, I've lost my best friend to gun violence in New Orleans.

Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fight back.

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.

Homicide, often involving guns, is a disease that is the leading cause of death for young black men, and the second-leading cause of death for all people aged fifteen to twenty-four. That makes it the leading health issue, particularly when guns are used in combination with drugs and alcohol. And the statistics show that is most often the case.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.