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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
— Barack Obama
Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are the police and it's just an outrage.
— Ben Stein
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
— Benjamin Harrison
For a Christianity preached by royal functionaries who are paid and made secure by the State and employ the police against other people, such a Christianity has the same relation to the Christianity of the New Testament as swimming with a cork float or with a bladder has to swimming, that is to say, it is play.
— Soren Kierkegaard
We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.
— Mike Pence
Brummel was a man somewhere in his thirties, single, a one-time hotshot city cop with a big buck lifestyle that belied his policeman's salary. He always came on like a likable guy, but Marshall never really trusted him. Come to think of it, he didn't like him that much either. Too much teeth showing for no reason.
— Frank Peretti
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
— Frank Herbert
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
— Frank Herbert
Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
— Frank Herbert
Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.
— Hillary Clinton
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
— Albert Camus