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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A government without the power of defense It is a solecism. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. - James Q. Wilson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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