Top 215 Officers Quotes

The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.
Theresa May
Border security is a comprehensive issue and doesn’t boil down to a ‘wall’ or even barriers. Trump knows and recognizes this, which is why he repeatedly talks about all of the aspects and challenges federal immigration officers face.
Katie Pavlich
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
Charles Williams
Prison officers face enormous pressure. The levels of violence inside our prisons are too high.
David Lidington
I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement – specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
Kapil Sibal
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.
Howard Staunton
We know that the American people are only safe because our law enforcement officers face danger. We can only rest easy because they never rest. And we can only dwell in peace because they stand between us and the danger.
William Barr
Think of de-escalation as a guardrail that helps slow down a situation, so both officers and San Diegans go home safely.
Kevin Faulconer
Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.
Michael Specter
We don’t ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.
Cary Kennedy
It’s a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
Veerappa Moily
Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.
Vito Fossella
I’m not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don’t think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
Trent Lott
During the lockdown, I saw many videos on social media which showed how COVID survivors were being attacked, doctors were being mistreated while they returned home, police officers were not welcome anywhere, I realized how disheartening it was!
Mimi Chakraborty
We must support our law enforcement officers, and we must start prioritizing the prevention of violent crime.
Mike Parson
I know from personal experience the issues veterans are facing, issues around PTSD, making sure our military officers and enlisted can transition to new careers.
Elissa Slotkin
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out, the difference between a legal, authorized, necessary, and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.
Jose Rodriguez
Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.
Sun Tzu
I actually went out and tried to hire the very best Cabinet officers that I could, understanding they can make help make the hard calls for the budget position that we’re in.
Bill Haslam
It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
Rahm Emanuel
Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.
Eric Adams
Accountability for police officers should be an expectation, not an aberration.
Alex Padilla
I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.
Gina Haspel
I got family members that’s police officers. I don’t got no problem if you a cop, as long as y’all doing y’all job, and y’all not harassing.
Juice Wrld
I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.
Kenny Stills
For police officers who commit this violence, there has

For police officers who commit this violence, there has been no accountability. Cops are supposed to be held to a standard of conduct, but they always get the benefit of the doubt, inherently. They act like we ain’t supposed to question nothing.
Tobias Harris
A lot has changed since I first arrived at CIA, but our mission remains as relevant and important as ever. And this is what makes our officers excited to come to work each morning, including me.
Gina Haspel
Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there’s no mistaking they’re there – and that presence makes people feel secure.
Irwin Redlener
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor’s officers’ mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
William Manchester
My heart goes out to the families of our fallen officers.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that’s what we have to change.
Mike Espy
There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.
Clint Eastwood
We’re lucky to have many brave and honorable officers in Alabama and around the country.
Tommy Tuberville
I’ve always believed that no officer’s life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear… Officers should be forward with their men at the point of impact.
Chesty Puller
It is an open secret that customs officers pay millions in bribes to secure the lucrative posting in the airport, cargo terminals or ports.
Sucheta Dalal
As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys – some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.
Richard Cohen
The officers and jawans of CRPF have sacrificed a lot for the nation.
Virender Sehwag
My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well.
Tomi Lahren
I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.
Alan Autry
One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.
Mark Thomas
Greater transparency is the easiest and simplest solution to prevent officers who have previously been in trouble from getting new jobs. That’s why we must create a national registry of police misconduct and disciplinary actions.
Mike Espy
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.
Lynn Westmoreland
Without a doubt, the most fiscally responsible way to increase the number of officers on our streets is to mobilize uniformed officers in administrative jobs and to use civilian employees to fill those jobs.
Letitia James
Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.
Loretta Lynch
The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
Charles Bass
Most police officers are good cops and good people.
Rand Paul
When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.
Eric Holder
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
Orhan Pamuk
I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.
Malcolm Jenkins
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.
Mike Crapo
No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.
Marquis de Lafayette
One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
Bobby Scott