"There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it."

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You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.

— Tom Shales