“We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwis...” — Greg Boyle Quote

“We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.”

“I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.”

“Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor.”

“God can get tiny if we're not careful.”

“The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.”

“The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?”

“Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.”

“Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.”

“Non-resident Indians love me and cough up huge sums of money to watch me fight in the ring.”

“I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.”

“It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines.”

“A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.”