People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

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