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

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

‚Eastern Promises‘ is great.

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 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.

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.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

There is a group of people that I think in good faith honestly believe that further curtailing our Second Amendment rights will enhance public safety. But there’s another group that just hates the Second Amendment.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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

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.

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.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

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!‘

Poverty is the mother of crime.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

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.

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

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

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

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.

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

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

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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

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

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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

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

I just think that – when a country needs more income and we do, we’re only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that – that – when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

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?

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

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

Guns are bad, I tell you.

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

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

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.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.

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

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

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

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.