Quotes About Trust

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve.

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

Why wouldn't the police officers be on edge? Why wouldn't they be alert? And why wouldn't people in the community trust police officers? Because they are consistently harassing them, and they have experience with police officers doing awful things.

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

It's nice to work with the same people. You don't have to be polite. You know each other's likes and dislikes, and you don't have to micromanage and look at what they're doing every moment.

I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.

Italy has turned its back on its political class, and a new language of community, identity, and honesty is filling the gap.

Don't fall in love with everything that you may have read and everything that you may have heard from any political leader, including myself.