James Q. Wilson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.”

“If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.”

“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.”

“In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.”

“There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.”

“There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.”