Carrie P. Meek quotes

“We've got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.”
-- Carrie P. Meek

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“Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.”
-- Carrie P. Meek

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“You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.”
-- Carrie P. Meek

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“If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.”
-- Carrie P. Meek

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“Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.”
-- Carrie P. Meek

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“Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area. And bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.”

Source : "Senate Plans Hearings on Slow FEMA Response". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. September 7, 2005.

“I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.”

“I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.”

“Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want”

“One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.”

Source : Alexandra Ripley (2011). “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind”, p.471, Hachette UK

“A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.”

“I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.”

“Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?”

“I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.”

“Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.”