Berghmans Balen Quotes & Sayings

Police throughout the United States have been caught fabricating, planting, and manipulating evidence to obtain convictions where cases would otherwise be very weak. Some authorities regard police perjury as so rampant that it can be considered a "subcultural norm rather than an individual aberration" of police officers. Large-scale investigations of police units in almost every major American city have documented massive evidence of tampering, abuse of the arresting power, and discriminatory enforcement of laws. There also appears to be widespread police perjury in the preparation of reports because police know these reports will be used in plea bargaining. Officers often justify false and embellished reports on the grounds that it metes out a rough justice to defendants who are guilty of wrongdoing but may be exonerated on technicalities. [internal citations omitted] — Dale Carpenter

SohelpmeGod if there weren't a hundred people staring at us, I would have his nuts in a vice. A steel one. With teeth. — Alessandra Torre

Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me? — Kristin Cashore

Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum. — Bruce Lee

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise. — Susanna Tamaro

The proliferation of creative power can transform the world for all of its inhabitants. — Timothy Simpson

I am first and foremost an actress of Indian origin. — Freida Pinto

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms. — Jay Nixon