"James Quinn Wilson" was an American academic, political scientist, and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard. He coauthored a leading university textbook on American government, as well as many scholarly books and articles, and op-ed essays. He gained national attention for a 1982 article introducing the broken windows theory. Wilson served on many national committees and boards, and was elected president of the American Political Science Association.

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

The most important change in how one defines the public interest that I have witnessed . . . over the last twenty years has been a deepening concern for the development of character in the citizenry.

Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

You have to train your body to take a beating. You have to have the heart and the patience to realize you're not going to get it overnight.

We want to take this and teach our athletes that there is a bigger picture. We are thankful we still have a gym and a football field. We are trying to get the kids to learn a life lesson.

This is that basic principle, magnified by 20.

The housing group will be fairly stable the next six months, then later will react to opportunities after various regional markets find stable levels. It's looking like the Federal Reserve may be done with raising interest rates in the spring and rates will have peaked, removing the fear that they were going to keep drifting further up.

I don't have total control on this; I'm trying.

No, sir, that's been tried. Some city council members have already talked to him. I get just as frustrated as you are.

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

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

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

I told (Crawford) to send someone up here and he told me to hold off.

I'd like to know how this will affect the aesthetics of the existing properties in the neighborhood. My wife and I have more years invested in our property than Mr. Bernardi has on his.

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Certainly, its important to protect the water system and that covers, certainly, everything from vandals to terrorists.

We know from Census Bureau surveys that something beyond a hundred thousand uses of guns for self-defense occur every year. We know from smaller surveys of a commercial nature that the number may be as high as two-and-a-half or three million. We don't know what the right number is, but whatever the right number is, it's not a trivial number.