Emily Procter Quotes

Let me remember, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

Our Constitution does not require that all crimes be solved.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

There's no excuse for breaking the law.

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is committed, you can help prevent it from happening to someone else.

As a judge, I held people accountable when they did wrong. That's why I cracked down on violent criminals and stopped the big banks when they tried to kick families out of their homes.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

I think vigilantism is a pipe dream, because the larger need is for a justice system that works. Now, Batman cannot be Batman without police commissioner Jim Gordon, because every time he catches a villain, he tries to send them to Gordon. So, the idea is to help the justice system to work. I don't think it can work in real life, though.

As people, we have to take the law's side. We have to stand behind the police, not behind the criminal.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

The E.U. has data systems that enable police and border guards to work together in real time to intercept wanted persons; and the European arrest warrant ensures their speedy return.

The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It is not enough to say domestic violence is a crime ?- in order for the laws to be successful, lawyers and courts must have the necessary means to prosecute it.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

You know, in our country lately we're more interested in protecting the criminals than we are in making sure that we're strong and powerful and know what we're doing.

We need law and order in America.

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

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.