“People have got to understand that it’s just as patriotic to try to keep your country from dying, as it is to die for your country.”

“There is no more talk of a few rotten apples in the barrel. It is the barrel that is rotten. The only trouble is that we are all still inside it, and the Knapp Commission has not told us how to get out.”

After the release of the hit film about his life, the hero cop who exposed corruption in the ranks sent a letter to his hometown paper

“Alan Dershowitz, professor of law at Harvard University, stated that ‘testilying’—as police call it—has long been an open secret among prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges."