Raymond Kelly

Public Servant

1941-09-04

Quotes by Raymond Kelly

• The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

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• It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.

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• The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

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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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