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Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie P. Meek

Society

Congress

Crime

We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.

Thomas Francis Meagher

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Thomas Francis Meagher

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime.

Henry Lee Lucas

Crime

Forget

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.