Quotes of: Police-state Keyword

Ed: You want to take a dinghy? Frank: No, I took care of that at the press conference.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Frank: Interesting... almost as interesting as the photographs I saw today. Jane: I was young! I needed the work!

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Ed: Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, though there's only a 10 percent chance of that.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Frank: I've finally found someone I can love - a good, clean love... without utensils.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Jane: How about a rain check? Frank: Well, let's just stick to dinner.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Prostitute #1: I saw a police station in a movie. It was cleaner. Prostitute #2: I once saw a dirtier one. Prostitute #3: And I, a more cheerful one.

The 400 Blows

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

Anthony Kennedy

When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we ne...

Al Sharpton

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

God Emperor of Dune

THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police sketch artist. This is one of the rare instances where two people can do one self-portrait.

This is a Book

I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And when I found out that he was a police officer... I wasn't so into it. I got paranoid that I would illegally cross the street and get a ticket for jay ...

Nina Dobrev

In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get...

Richard Stallman

James Hope - Police Officer: I mean, you can't say they don't look like that, that's what they look like, right? They look like prawns.

District 9

Ringo: [arrested, at the police station] I demand to see my solicitor! Police Inspector: What's his name? Ringo: Well, if you're gonna get technical about it...

A Hard Day's Night

Nurse #2: Mrs. Nordberg, I think we can save your husband's arm. Where would you like it sent?

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Jane: I'm boiling a roast. How hot and wet do you like it? Frank: Very hot, and awfully wet.

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

[Frank recalls a prior love] Frank: I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her, but she had her music. I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't ...

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regim...

Revolution 2:0: A Memoir and Call to Action

The amazing aftermath of Birmingham, the sweeping Negro Revolution, revealed to people all over the land that there are no outsiders in all these fifty states of America. When a police dog buried his fangs in the ankle of a small child in Birmingham,...

Why We Can't Wait

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-sh...

Christopher Hitchens

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

Cocaine: Impressions & Opinions