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.

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.

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 infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

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.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

The worst crime is faking it.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

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.

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

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

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

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

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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

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.

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

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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.

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

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

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

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

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.

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.