Lee Zeldin Quotes

All of us who work in law enforcement want to keep people safe. That is the heart of our jobs; it is what drives us every day.

If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver's license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We're just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

Carrying law enforcement ID connects you with those who do the same and separates you from those who don't. There's an implicit trust that you will serve even if means risking your life.

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

My father was a cop.

Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.

Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.

I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

Cops, the law's the law. You see somebody break it, you've got to be willing to enforce it. And doing that enhances the confrontational aspect of the whole circumstance. The more the confrontational aspect is ratcheted up the more danger is involved. It's gutsy work.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

Unlike other professions - doctor, lawyer, teacher, journalist, sales clerk, stock broker - when a cop makes a bad mistake, it could mean someone is dead. They take home mental baggage unlike anything carried in almost every other job.

Police chiefs know a thing or two about public safety.

Obviously, we have to do a far better job on keeping our community safe, and that's where I'm going to put a significant amount of input.

I've been saying for about 20 years, 'When am I going to get my cop show?'

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

When you play a cop, it's a different feeling altogether.

I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.

As people, we have to take the law's side. We have to stand behind the police, not behind the criminal.