Tough on Crime Quotes

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

The notion that we should take away educational programs in prisons in order to be tough on crime makes no sense.

When we look at our justice system, we have this image of a balancing scale: truth and justice, right and wrong. But for years, our system has been lopsided, where it's not about truth and justice or balance. It's about being tough on crime, and sometimes that means you're putting the wrong person behind bars.

I understand Donald Trump's goals. That's why I supported him for president. I share his beliefs that we've got to do more about crime, more about illegal immigration, more about gangs and violence and it's an honor and a pleasure to be able to lead that effort.

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing.

Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.

The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the 'whole cloth' of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is 'tougher than thou.'

The status quo tough-on-crime policies of the '90s and 2000s are not working and are not popular. And it provides me with hope about the possibilities for San Francisco and this whole country in terms of moving away from our dependence on prisons and jails to solve social problems.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

Anyone who knows gangs knows that lawmakers cannot conceive of a law that would lead a hard-core gang member to 'think twice.'

No one would normally accuse me of being soft on crime.

The thing that happens is that politicians run on tough-on-crime rhetoric. You appeal to the public and say, 'Let's put more money into taller fences, tougher laws, tougher sentencing, handcuffs,' and where does that money come from? Well, immediately, it comes out of all the money needed for corrections.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

[Referring to the Congress:] They're trying to outdrug each other. Each one wants to seem tougher on drugs than the next one.

There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes.

We will never, ever weaken our resolve to be tough on the worst offenders. But we will responsibly take steps to assist our friends and neighbors who deserve a second chance to contribute to our society.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix arrested three people. As soon as he arrested those three people, everybody else immediate left.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.

It wasn't the smiling Trump that people elected. It was the frowning, glowering, angry Donald Trump that people elected.