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You don't hear anybody talking about what FBI is doing with the NSA collected data. That's because they're doing it in secret. I mean, they're also using it to convict people of crimes, and that's what they're doing - they're looking at it for criminal activity. William Binney

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Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety. William Bratton

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It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk. William Bratton

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Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime. William Bratton

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Race is something that's always haunted American policing. William Bratton

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I disliked everything about the '60s. William Bratton

Everything About Disliked

If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence. William Bratton

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Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope. William Bratton

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But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled. William Cavendish

Nothing Settled Horse Head Till Done

And he that said that a horse was not dressed, whose curb was not loose, said right; and it is equally true that the curb can never play, when in its right place, except the horse be upon his haunches. William Cavendish

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Be always lavish of your caresses, and sparing in your corrections. William Cavendish

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By the mid-1950s, the young bond traders on the Street were becoming more and more of a fraternity. We organized informal luncheons every Thursday in an effort to educate financial writers, who knew next to nothing about municipal bonds. William E. Simon

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Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time. William E. Simon

A tax cut would most certainly be my first choice rather than an increase in federal spending. Those who advocate that fail to see that spending not only continues in subsequent years, but it grows and grows. William E. Simon

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