Barack Obama, Presidential Candidate, on Crime, via his campaign booklet:

Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Supports:
Obama will work to ensure that ex-offenders have access to job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and employment op-portunities. Obama will also create a prison-to-work incentive program and reduce barriers to employment.

Hillary Clinton, Presidential Candidate, on Crime in a 2007 Democratic Debate:

We have to go after mandatory minimums. You know, mandatory sentences for certain violent crimes may be appropriate, but it has been too widely used. And it is using now a discriminatory impact.

Frank Rizzo, former Mayor of Philadelphia on Crime:

“I’m gonna make Attila the Hun look like a faggot after the election’s over.”

My, how times have changed.