Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

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• James Q. Wilson:

  A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

• James Q. Wilson:

  I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

• James Q. Wilson:

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

• James Q. Wilson:

  In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

• James Q. Wilson:

  I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's h

• James Q. Wilson:

  In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

• James Q. Wilson:

  I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are par

• James Q. Wilson:

  Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty al

• James Q. Wilson:

  There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

• James Q. Wilson:

  Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system