James Q. Wilson

Politician

1931-05-27

Quotes by James Q. Wilson

• Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

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• But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

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• Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

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