What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not.

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

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

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.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

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.

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.