#criminal

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#envy #forbidden #identify #illegal #need

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. ↗

— Howard Metzenbaum

#banning #control #criminals #guns #how

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them. ↗

— Maria Monk

#astonishment #criminal #duties #great #horror

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#criminal #how #i #many #more

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#argue #arising #before #capital #case

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. ↗

— Timothy Murphy

#costs #country #criminals #crisis #door

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? ↗

— Ogden Nash

#descendant #direct #every #line #long

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder. ↗

— Bob Ney

#affairs #apparently #bidder #bureaucrat #criminal

The administration says, then, there are no downsides or upsides to treating terrorists like civilian criminal defendants, but a lot of us would beg to differ. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#beg #civilian #criminal #defendants #differ

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#anything #bank #bank robbery #class #class distinctions