Maria Bello Biography
Maria Elena Bello (born April 18, 1967) is an American actress and singer. She started her acting career in small off-Broadway plays, such as The Killer Inside Me, Small Town Gals with Big Problems, and Urban Planning. Bello's big break came when producers Kerry Lenhart and John J. Sakmar cast her as Mrs. Smith in the spy show Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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Death Penalty and Criminal Justice Perspectives
Dickie Pilager: [Conducting a press conference.]
In the case of capital offenses I am absolutely in favor of the death penalty. You hear stories about frontier justice ... you can bet that the wrongdoers, the folks who couldn't play by the rules, had some respect for that. And there was no ... it didn't cost the taxpayer ... if they had had taxpayers back then ... those were the good old days, I suppose ... and all you needed was a good strong rope and a tree to hang it from!
Reporter 1:
So you'll be proposing tougher criminal legis ...
Dickie Pilager:
My message to criminals is this: straighten up or get out. There's no place for you in our state. You do the crime, and by God, you're gonna have to face your lumps.
Nora Allardyce:
But the majority of those serving time for drug possession are ...
Dickie Pilager:
You want to change the behavior? Stiffen the consequences!
Nora Allardyce:
There have been reports, Mr. Pilager, that before you became involved in politics you had considerable experience with ...
Dickie Pilager:
Look, if you're up in a helicopter, airplane, something that flies, you don't want your pilot intoxicated with drugs, do you? And it's that way with our schoolchildren ... Junior can't read if he's high on crack. Yeah, air is thin enough up here!
Dickie Pilager: [points to another reporter]
Yes?
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