Pastoral Resources

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We can play politics, or we can reduce 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.