American - Public | September 4, 1941 -
If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.
Raymond Kelly
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I like music, a lot of different types of music.
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I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.
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Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.
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A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.
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I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.
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It's dangerous to write people off just because they've been arrested.
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All terrorism is theater.
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In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.
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I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.
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You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.
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You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.
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