A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Will Rogers

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.
Kent McCord

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.
Ben Maddow

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
Patricia Highsmith

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.
Lord Salisbury

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
John Thaw

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.
Robin Tunney

If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?
John C. White

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles Kuralt

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman.
Harvey Keitel

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.
Thurgood Marshall

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
Richard J. Daley

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Walter Lippmann

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
Arthur Conan Doyle