Top 19 David A. Clarke, Jr. Quotes

For a label for me, ‘conservative’ is more appropriate than ‘Republican.’

Because of Rudy Giuliani’s policies of reducing crime in New York City, tens of thousands of black men, women, and children are alive today that wouldn’t have been otherwise.

Stand by the side of law enforcement, the men and women who are often the only semblance of hope and justice in the crime-ridden inner cities.

Through the marginalization of black fathers and encouragement of destruction lifestyle choices, the progressive Left has cut off one of the lifelines to raising healthy, happy, children intent on bettering themselves and their community.

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

This anti-cop sentiment from this hateful ideology called Black Lives Matter has fueled this rage against the American police officer.

The Democrats take the black vote for granted so they don’t have to appeal to anything… I haven’t heard Mrs. Clinton talk about the urban pathologies in the American ghetto that are the result of progressive urban policies – failed policies.

What we witnessed in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and in Baton Rouge was a collapse of social order. So many of the actions of the Occupy movement and Black Lives Matter transcend peaceful protest and violates the code of conduct we rely on. I call it anarchy.

Growing up a career cop, I was always taught, ‘Stay out of politics.’ I didn’t have any particular allegiance to any particular party.

I’m a cop at heart – it’s in my blood.

I believe in limited government. I know what the welfare state has done to the black community.

There is no police brutality.

Playing the race card is done as if it were some kind of sport.

We as a people need to declare that we stand with rule of law and not with the false tales of the revolutionary Marxist forces, who most recently have rebranded themselves from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.

I’m result-oriented, and our neighborhoods will never prosper if we don’t keep criminals from victimizing families.

Police use of deadly force is rare in America. You wouldn’t know that by listening to some of the blowhards out there: the newspaper, the mainstream media, the race hustlers. They make it seem like this stuff happens several times a day. It’s rare.

I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement – specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.

Nobody told David Clarke what to think, what to feel, what to say, what to believe in, who to marry, what kind of food to eat – you know that thing that the race hustlers like to say defines your blackness? But yet every time I look in the mirror in the morning, I see a black guy looking back at me.

Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end – and that is discord, alienation among Americans, rise in hate, and destruction of community bonds. The relative increase in justice afforded black Americans is of little concern, save as a convenient veneer for their anti-democratic mission.