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The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.