Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn’t financial professionals practice under the same safeguard?

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

Don’t hire a prison consultant.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

I’m opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

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.

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Our rights are not absolute. Our rights can be curtailed in the interest of public safety.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

Guns are bad, I tell you.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

The FBI should not be a political body.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.