Gary Sherman Quotes

Truth is what works.

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

Targets don't fight crime.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Fighting crime is not cheap, because it requires boots on the ground.

“I’m going to stop crime in the streets.” A president is pressured to make that promise even though a President can’t do anything about street crime.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

Only an approach combining tough law enforcement with physical, moral and educational revitalization of high-crime areas offers the prospect of a safer America.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.