As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

The worst crime is faking it.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

DACA recipients risk a lot to come out of the shadows & sign up, but many will tell you the risk is worth being able to live and work in the only country they’ve ever known as home. DACA recipients serve in our military, work in Fortune 100 companies, and conduct important medical research.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere ‚stick‘ in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.