Quotes About Crime

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

I rely on guns for protection in life. God does not say, 'This is la-la land.' God doesn't say, 'Welcome to Earth. Everything's perfect. There's no crime. There's no murder. There's no death.' The world is imperfect, and you have to be on guard.

Lisbeth Salander is one of the most compelling heroines of 21st century crime literature, and I am thrilled to see readers have welcomed her return.

Immigrants and refugees who have escaped the corrupt, dysfunctional, crime-ridden, socialist and communist regimes of Latin America are precisely the kind of hard-working and grateful people we should be welcoming to the U.S.

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

Crime associated with our border is a serious threat to the general welfare of real citizens, and after all, isn't it the general welfare of citizens that the Constitution calls upon government to promote?

Received left-wing wisdom holds that the police cannot lower crime, only massive welfare spending and the redistribution of wealth can.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

I come from a state where four governors have gone to jail since I've been alive. Two of my last four predecessors in this seat went to jail or are going to jail.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

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

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.