Muhammadu Buhari Quotes

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

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

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

We must not condemn to frustration those whose job it is to protect us by failing to provide them with the necessary resources to meet the threats they face.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.

The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of outlawry so largely disturbing the sense of security, and so often committing highway robbery and smaller thefts. The opinion in Tombstone and elsewhere in that part of the Territory is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element. Something must be done, and that right early, or very grave results will follow. If is an open disgrace to American liberty and the peace and security of her citizens, that such a slate of affairs should exist.

What we need in our countries is a good police force with a civilian mentality and some cheap light arms, not an army that needs to maintain its power with sophisticated weapons

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience

We are incapable of maintaining peace and order and to enforce the law with the resources we have.

There is a general rule, which includes all the duties of a sovereign, and by which he may easily judge how to proceed under every circumstance. Let the safety of the people be the supreme law.

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

The overall policing budget is protected.

A gun in the hands of a secret service agent protecting our president isn't a bad word.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.