Chief Daniel Oates quote: "This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that, in the end, this guy suffered injuries and I've got to look into that. But I'm also weighing ... you know, we got officers out there who are trying to do the right thing to protect our citizens and I've got to weigh, I've got to get the facts and weigh what happened."

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web,...
CHIEF SEATTLE

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dea...
CHIEF SEATTLE

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
CHIEF SEATTLE

Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, ever...
CHIEF SEATTLE

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness o...
CHIEF SEATTLE

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in sprin...
CHIEF SEATTLE

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is me...
CHIEF SEATTLE

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no troub...
CHIEF JOSEPH

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is me...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the we...
CHIEF SEATTLE

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunit...
CHIEF JOSEPH

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
CHIEF JOSEPH

We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Cha...
CHIEF JOSEPH

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
CHIEF JOSEPH

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
CHIEF JOSEPH

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled...
CHIEF JOSEPH

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our ...
CHIEF JOSEPH

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when...
CHIEF JOSEPH

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
CHIEF JOSEPH

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.
CHIEF JOSEPH

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
CHIEF JOSEPH

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns...
CHIEF JOSEPH

I want the white people to understand my people.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Good words will not give me back my children.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Words do not pay for my dead people.
CHIEF JOSEPH

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chie...
CHIEF JOSEPH

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
CHIEF JOSEPH

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
CHIEF JOSEPH

It does not require many words to speak the truth.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
CHIEF JOSEPH

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
CHIEF JOSEPH

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
CHIEF JOSEPH

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mis...
CHIEF JOSEPH

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
CHIEF JOSEPH

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought ...
CHIEF JOSEPH

I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situation, future events,...
CHIEF ODUDUWA

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness ...
CHIEF SEATTLE

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with al...
CHIEF SEATTLE

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
CHIEF JOSEPH

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when...
CHIEF SEATTLE

When you play with the big dogs, you're going to get hurt.
CHIEF ARADI

Can you believe their backgrounds?
CHIEF ARADI

I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.
CHIEF ARADI

I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented ...
CHIEF ARADI

It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.
CHIEF ARADI

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will figh...
CHIEF JOSEPH

Treat all men alike. Give them all the same laws. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
CHIEF JOSEPH

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. S...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature...
CHIEF SEATTLE

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
CHIEF SEATTLE

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our ...
CHIEF JOSEPH

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall ha...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure the...
CHIEF SEATTLE

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected l...
CHIEF SEATTLE

all things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
CHIEF SEATTLE

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.
CHIEF SEATTLE

Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the...
CHIEF SEATTLE

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back hom...
CHIEF JOSEPH

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
CHIEF SEATTLE

Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn ho...
CHIEF SEATTLE

These are senseless deaths in my personal opinion, ... I can't think of any reason I could give for ...
CHIEF JOSEPH

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he do...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Every door opened others. The records show some interesting encounters with a very complicated commu...
CHIEF SEATTLE

She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (...
CHIEF JOSEPH

That's been resounded by many people,
CHIEF JOSEPH

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free...
CHIEF JOSEPH

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will figh...
CHIEF JOSEPH

She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h...
CHIEF JOSEPH

There is a legitimate place for him in a law enforcement agency. He is a unique individual and there...
CHIEF JOSEPH

I am Cheif Oduduwa. I can cast a spell on your behalf regarding a relationship, your financial situa...
CHIEF ODUDUWA

This is the way we want to interact with everyone. . . . That's always our goal. The more that we ca...
CHIEF JOSEPH

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
CHIEF SEATTLE

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay a...
CHIEF SEATTLE

We're trying to bring all of that back, ... We've had teams come in, and we're encouraging public pa...
CHIEF JOSEPH

We're very happy with stable water, ... However, we're not convinced we're out of the woods yet.
CHIEF JOSEPH

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountain...
CHIEF JOSEPH

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
CHIEF SEATTLE

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not ...
CHIEF JOSEPH

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Trust is like a block of ice, once it melts into the ground, you can never get it back.
CAPTAIN CHIEF

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
CHIEF SEATTLE

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's ...
CHIEF SEATTLE

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
CHIEF JOSEPH

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly ...
CHIEF JOSEPH

My people were divided about surrendering.
CHIEF JOSEPH

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
CHIEF JOSEPH

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can ...
CHIEF SEATTLE

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
CHIEF SEATTLE

I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedbac...
ADAM OATES

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.
JOHN OATES

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
ADAM OATES

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point...
ADAM OATES

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no dif...
ADAM OATES

Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
ADAM OATES

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
ADAM OATES

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ba...
ADAM OATES

I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy th...
ADAM OATES

I am just going outside and may be some time.
LAWRENCE OATES

When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.
JOHN OATES

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ...
JOHN OATES

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where pe...
JOHN OATES

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doe...
JOHN OATES

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
JOHN OATES

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.
JOHN OATES

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, ...
JOHN OATES

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riche...
JOHN OATES

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the app...
JOHN OATES

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my gu...
JOHN OATES

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.
JOHN OATES

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly ...
JOHN OATES

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
JOHN OATES

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high...
JOHN OATES

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ...
JOHN OATES

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ...
JOHN OATES

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ...
JOHN OATES

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h...
JOHN OATES

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ...
JOHN OATES

I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea...
JOHN OATES

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
JOHN OATES

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
JOHN OATES

I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J...
JOHN OATES

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
JOHN OATES

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
JOHN OATES

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a...
JOHN OATES

If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'We...
JOHN OATES

Love is just like the flower; it has hidden depths that we rarely ever explore. Beneath the surface ...
CAROL OATES

Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage st...
JOHN OATES

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
JOHN OATES

Sebastian tapped his index finger on the polished wood thoughtfully. Yes, it was a universal truth: ...
CAROL OATES

The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off....
JOHN OATES

I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like...
JOHN OATES

A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and beli...
CAROL OATES

He would be overjoyed. To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range...
GLORIA OATES

This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead.
GLORIA OATES

It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and...
GLORIA OATES

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls...
CHIEF SEATTLE (SEALTH), SUQUAMISH CHIEF

Exactly why the assailants resorted to deadly force is not clear, nor why a drastic shift in 2005 ve...
CHIEF RONAL SERPAS

not right now, I don't have time. Maybe next week.
CHIEF LEMAN PADELFORD

We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.
CHIEF GARY OGDEN

Once the committee has gone through all the correspondence a directive will be issued.
CHIEF MWELO NONKONYANA

If you are in alone on a street in Paris, France, and you become unconscious, as long as someone cal...
CHIEF DONALD POIROT

The paradigm of our current situation remains: the consumer prices also on imported goods stay high ...
CHIEF JUSTUS GAROëB

All the men and women of the Montreal police department, including myself, are in shock about these ...
CHIEF YVAN DELORME

Homicides are very rare. We live in a community where people pay their taxes and go to church.
CHIEF LEONARD GALLO

After all the process, if he is guilty he will be fired.
CHIEF YVAN DELORME

No one, not even his friends, suspected anything.
CHIEF YVAN DELORME

Any time a violent crime strikes her, we take it personally. It has an effect on everyone and affect...
CHIEF PHILLIP SCOTT

It will be a long process, unless we get a storm coming through and some rain wetting down the area.
CHIEF KIM FORBES

The bomber used about (11 pounds) of explosives obtained locally, and we have collected his body par...
CHIEF NIAZ SIDDIQUI

We are spending much more, but developing only a little.
CHIEF JUSTUS GAROëB

The water was at zero visibility.
CHIEF RYAN NICHOLS

By law, it's illegal for someone else to respond to a call if they're not dispatched there. Since we...
CHIEF RON HENRY

A fire needs three things to survive: fuel (like weeds or dry grass), oxygen and a heat source. A lo...
CHIEF GARY OGDEN

You should burn very cautiously. If you're burning your trash off, for example in a 55-gallon drum, ...
CHIEF GARY OGDEN

Mr. Monroe looks like our prime suspect, but until we put these bullets to the test, we will not clo...
CHIEF LEONARD GALLO

Every two years we have an election for a term of four years. The chief is in one category, and the ...
CHIEF LOUIE CHAVIS

It offered us a means of economic development that might be lasting. But even then, as we made that ...
CHIEF JOYCE DUGAN

Tempers are short. But I'm surprised that this happened. I can't even understand how a brother could...
CHIEF DAVID WYNN

In the '70s, when I started here, your heroin was probably 7 to 15 percent pure. It was cut with cor...
CHIEF CHARLES HUSKA

I'm blown away by the talent of this organization. This agency is peppered with unique and talented ...
CHIEF LESTER ARADI

It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.
CHIEF GARY OGDEN

This is a complicated case.
CHIEF JODY LENAHAN

If we see you doing it, you're going directly to jail.
CHIEF DAVID WYNN

We just put a diver in the water and looked underneath the boat. There was nothing there.
CHIEF RYAN NICHOLS

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
TECUMSEH SHAWNEE CHIEF

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give t...
TECUMSEH SHAWNEE CHIEF

He was not hurt physically. Obviously, he was shook up.
CHIEF DAVID WYNN

We've gotten a lot of mileage out of it. People honk and wave and give the officers a thumbs-up.
CHIEF GARY WESTPHAL

We have asked our youths to release the hostages while we start negotiating with the federal governm...
CHIEF EDWIN CLARK

I think it just ruins the entire neighborhood.
CHIEF JAMES MURRAY

Thanks to the citizen's tip and the surveillance of our Gang Unit, nine guns were taken off the stre...
CHIEF RONAL SERPAS

I have no preconceived opinions on anybody.
CHIEF JAMES MURRAY

One day, we will reopen our rolls.
CHIEF LOUIE CHAVIS

We are the only ones being dispatched in Springfield Township. What will happen in the future I can'...
CHIEF RON HENRY

It is the giving wolf, who is also the killing wolf....
MASTER CHIEF 117

We were poor, almost totally dependent on the federal government for subsistence. And that's not goo...
CHIEF JOYCE DUGAN

I'm sorry you feel that way
CHIEF LEMAN PADELFORD

The two major contributing factors that contributed to the quick spread was the wind combined with t...
CHIEF LEMAN PADELFORD

They go to the pen or get put on probation, and they don't get their car back.
CHIEF GARY WESTPHAL

We must remind people that this is about the safety of our students. Little children are crossing a ...
CHIEF JAMES MURRAY

It's like a changing of the guard.
CHIEF JAMES MURRAY

There's lots of very good people in this police force.
CHIEF JAMES MURRAY

I don't think they will be brave enough to ask us about more money after what has happened. But I wi...
CHIEF MWELO NONKONYANA

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the World always works in...
CHIEF BLACK ELK

It's simply neighbor helping out neighbor.
CHIEF LESTER ARADI

I've never seen so many show up for a fire. It's like the street festival.
CHIEF DAVE OWENS

Angry people want you to see how powerful they are... loving people want you to see how powerful You...
CHIEF RED EAGLE

All (family members) are cooperative and understand we're doing everything we can for them.
CHIEF RYAN NICHOLS

He saw the boat and immediately shut down the dam. He tried to throw him a life preserver, but the g...
CHIEF RYAN NICHOLS

We never want anyone to come thinking they are going to win to pay their house payment or their ligh...
CHIEF JOYCE DUGAN

The cause of the fire is undetermined as of yet, and is still under investigation. However, there we...
CHIEF LEMAN PADELFORD

This thing has been going on for a long time now and I think we have to deal with it once and for al...
CHIEF MWELO NONKONYANA

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