I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to... its office holders.

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

If you bad-mouth your former employer, it shows you have no loyalty, you're negative - and you might act that way at a new job.