Crime Quotes

“The detective and the criminal are cousins.”

“All these people that come over, they're all criminals.”

“This is not a gun control issue; this is a crime control issue.”

“Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.”

“The criminal law is not a statement of how people ought to behave; it is a statement of what will happen to them if they do not behave.”

“We're bigger than U.S. Steel.”

“My primary crime was curiosity.”

“When you've got a dead body in your room, it's a bit of a bloody nuisance.”

“These weren't guys who read books. These were guys who broke legs.”

“Crime is but a disease—a moral distemper; and the machinery for its detection and punishment is what the physician is to the physical maladies of the body.”

“The professional thief is a man of business, and his business is to steal.”

“The main thing is, you live in a world of your own. You have your own laws.”

“Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime is what got us into this mess.”

“There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.”

“Made it, Ma! Top of the world!”

“You don't tell a woman you're going to kill her. You just do it.”

“The crime rate has been dropping for years, but the news coverage has been going up. That's because it's a cheap story.”

“I've been a prosecutor for 20 years. I've seen it all. I've seen every kind of crime.”

“Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”

“I'm a serial killer. I would kill again.”