Criminal Quotes

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.'
Mike Wallace

Important, Done, Leader

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.
Gary Bauer

America, Put, Hurting

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder

Health, Home, War

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
Blake Edwards

Science, Nothing, Game

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
Ernest Istook

Society, Justice, Law

It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for the misguided frustrations of the Bush administration.
Dave Matthews

Women, Put, Lives

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
Kamala Harris

Justice, Tough, Talk

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
Kamala Harris

Work, Justice, System

They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.
Afrika Bambaataa

Movies, Woman, Black

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
Livy

Late, Resistance, Rashness

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is wrong.
John Grisham

Enough, Wrong, Public

Historically, terrorism falls in a category different from crimes that concern a criminal court judge.
Jurgen Habermas

Judge, Different, Terrorism

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.
David Guterson

Father, Law, Practicing

I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Work, Done, Keep

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.
Lindsey Graham

Legal, Through, Dangerous

I take full responsibility for what happened at Enron. But saying that, I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal.
Kenneth Lay

Mind, Nothing, Saying

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.
Kenneth Lay

Somebody, Company, Inside

But certainly I didn't know he was doing anything that was criminal.
Kenneth Lay

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.
Kenneth Lay

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
Ben Whishaw

Justice, Human, System

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.
James Ellroy

Truth, Rather, Side

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.
Christine Keeler

Life, Sure, Stop

I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.
Toby Jones

Someone, Real, Person

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
Jeff Miller

Often, Far, Attention

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
Larry Elder

Dad, Angry, America

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
Ray Stannard Baker

Good, Government, Law

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
Kamala Harris

Change, Justice, Means

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Government, Past, Said

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
Gary Locke

Good, Days, Maybe

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
John Yoo

Law, Torture, Convention

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