Policeman Quotes Page 2

The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you disagree as well as those with which you agree.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal.

The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero.

In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse.

A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman.

Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.

They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper.

He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."

I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway.

he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".

A traffic policeman stops Sister Bridget for speeding.

She pulls into the side of the road and winds down her window. The officer walks round and starts undoing his fly. "Oh dear," she says, "Not the breathalyser again."

Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality.

What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character.

He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.