Dirk Kempthorne Quotes

My mom was a nurse at Rikers Island and she cried to me about not going the wrong route.

We are stronger because we recognize that government isn't the sole answer to the most important questions, and we welcome community and faith based organizations as partners to serve the needs of Florida families.

After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.

I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes.

Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.

Catholic Charities is already one of the largest government contractors in the United States.

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

Every child should be taught to be a caring adult and be given an opportunity to serve their communities.

If you're someone who reads, find someone who can't .... Join the community of conscience.

We have responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move.

It’s bullshit. When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out. I saw a guy kill himself at the Superdome. Two policemen have committed suicide.