Law enforcement quotes

“Look, kid, we can't always save the day. All right? We're just cops. Janitors.”
Wayne Duvall - Captain Richard O'Malley

“We are Texas Rangers! Our jurisdiction is wherever we happen to be!”
Steve Zahn - Gus McCrae

“- Aaron Levinsky: Mrs. Draper, could you tell me your understanding of the legal concept of justifiable force?
- Claudia Draper: That's when someone's beating your brains out the back of your head, you're allowed to stop them any way you can.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Aaron Levinsky
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“Interpol? Fucking Interpol? I'm not going to fucking prison! I'm not cut out for that shit. Have you seen these fucking arms, man? These wet noodles will prevent very few prison rapes.”
Jay Baruchel - Francie Tobin

“Excuse me. I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.”
Peter Weller - Robocop

“I am the police, and I'm here to arrest you. You've broken the law. I did not write the law. I may even disagree with the law but I will enforce it. No matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with gray bars. If you run away I will chase you. If you fight me...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brian Taylor

“You'll see how elegantly this works. The black will disappear completely. There'll be no smell, no discoloration. It's like an agent, an agent who's come to believe his own cover story. But who's in there, hiding, in a larval state. Just waiting for a time to hatch out.”
Roy Scheider - Dr. Benway

“- Jay: Why did you join MiB?
- Agent Tee: Six years in the Marines. Love to serve, love the action.
- Jay: You wanted to play hero.”
Will Smith - Jay
Patrick Warburton - Agent Tee

“A lot of times you don't know how it ends. When your units get to a scene you sign off and they take over. But, you don't know. Did they make an arrest, shoot the bad guy, did the PR live, did she die...”
Jenna Lamia - Brooke

“This is not a seminar on metaphysics, son. This is the U.S. Navy.”

Sam Shepard - Capt. George Cummings

“- Nick Lang: Will you open up? I just want to know what it feels like to be inside your skin.
- John Moss: I don't want you inside my skin, you understand it? It's private! What's in there belongs to me! You're not gonna learn what it means to be a cop by eating hot dogs and picking your teeth and asking stupid questions.”
Michael J. Fox - Nick Lang
James Woods - John Moss

“I have a report here that says that the Chicken Ranch is involved with and under the influence of organized crime. I myself am gonna take this report to Austin in the hopes that the governor himself will come out of his long silence on this issue and uphold the law.”

Dom DeLuise - Melvin

“- C.I.A. Director: What do you think of the girl?
- Jeremy: I think she's fuckin' smart.
- C.I.A. Director: We're all smart, Jeremy.”

James Gandolfini - C.I.A. Director
John Barrowman - Jeremy

- Mal: Is there a place in town that takes "my kind"?
- Sheriff Langston: You misunderstand. I want you out of town. In fact, I want you all the way out of my jurisdiction.
- Mal: That ain't right.
- Sheriff Langston: I decide what's right in this jurisdiction. Now, move.

Danny Glover - Mal
John Marwood Cleese - Sheriff Langston

“We both have our codes, Vanya. Yours, one of the State. Mine, one of thieves.”
Ed O'Ross - Viktor Rostavili

“- James Bond: What are you, CIA?
- Jinx Johnson: NSA. Hello, we're on the same side.
- James Bond: Doesn't mean we're after the same thing.
- Jinx Johnson: Sure it does. World peace, unconditional love, and our little friend with the expensive acne.”
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond
Halle Berry - Jinx Johnson

“Behind my badge is a heart like yours. I bleed, I think, I love, and yes I can be killed. And although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me. They will lay down their lives for me, and I them. We stand watch together. The thin-blue-line, protecting the prey from the predators, the good from the bad. We...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brian Taylor

“- Security Guard 1: You won't mind if we search you then? Mm?
- Security Guard 2: Or perhaps you'd rather we call your parents? Let them know you're being investigated for shop lifting which is a criminal offense in this country.”

Geoff Bell - Security Guard 1
Gary J. Tunnicliffe - Security Guard 2

“You are under arrest. You have the right to remain disgusting.”

Joe Piscopo - Doug Bigelow

“We've got the FBI on us like trailer trash on Velveeta.”
Robin Tunney - Angela Harris

“You didn't think all hell wouldn't break loose? You didn't think every fucking fed wouldn't drop what they were doing and dive in to protect one of their own? What do you morons think, that this is little Italy? Wake up! This is the twenty-fuckin'-first century!”
Al Pacino - Starkman

“These men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children...”
Brendan Gleeson - Gerry Boyle

“- Castor Troy: It's a capital crime to try to kill the next big boss of the FBl, yes?
- Sean Archer: Yes. The penalty... the penalty is death!”

John Travolta - Castor Troy
Nicolas Cage - Sean Archer

“- Cobb: I was hoping you'd changed your mind about the job.
- Paden: You didn't tell me you owned a saloon.
- Cobb: Oh, that ain't the half of it, friend. Welcome to heaven.”

Brian Dennehy - Cobb
Kevin Kline - Paden

“This is my town. Okay? I'm the sheriff here. I'll tell you what stands. Not the other way around. Now please get out of my building.”

Michael Bowen - Sheriff Stan Watkins