(36 quotes found)
“We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.”
Felix Sabates
“If you walk in and say that we want you to hire ex-felons ... the answer is probably 'no,' ... But when you get them here and they are seeing them face-to-face, they're seeing them as human beings. And that breaks it down, and some real positive things can happen.”
Bob Edwards
“You are releasing a guy who is a known felon. We can't put them on an island. The only way to deal with this is to take pictures. Everyone should have a picture mailed to them.”
Thomas Grande
“Realistically, I think we accomplished what we hoped to do. He is [now] a convicted felon, his business is shut down and he's going to be locked up.”
Caroline Shepherd
“This plan [to disenfranchise felons] will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county… will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.”
Carter Glass
“This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that, in the end, this guy suffered injuries and I've got to look into that. But I'm also weighing ... you know, we got officers out there who are trying to do the right thing to protect our citizens and I've got to weigh, I've got to get the facts and weigh what happened.”
Chief Daniel Oates
“Say if my grandma was a permanent resident, and I know her, we'd both be considered felons.”
Daniel Perez
“There is no rule that politicians can't have friends. They want this man to become a convicted felon and his life destroyed because he had friendships.”
Dan K. Webb
“They went in with a slow, methodical approach because we knew we had a violent felon inside and we knew we had a child inside. There was a dog inside, and they heard a dog barking. But there had been no contact whatsoever. They didn't even hear a child crying, nothing.”
Darren Moloney
“The person involved with the car was a violent dangerous felon known to carry firearms.”
