#ow

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#come #community-based #congress #different #different things

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #left #liberals #mugged #new

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#basic research #become #full #government #industry

While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#cal #computer #faculty #hikes #how

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now. ↗

— Mike Wilson

#live #louisiana #now #texas

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#break #estate #go #got #grow

I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#doing #end #go #going #happen

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#fine #i #know #like #look

Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#figure #find #get #high #high school