Quotes About Law

The EPA must be forbidden to seize or destroy the property of any person until and unless such person has been found guilty of a crime in a court of law.

A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.

If you really want to help the rest of the world, what you've got to do is encourage free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of the dictators in a lot of these countries.

If the Obama administration wanted to implement the DACA program, it should have made the case to Congress and try to pass its proposal into law.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

The responsibility of the Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is to determine whether crimes have been committed and to prosecute those crimes under the principles of federal prosecution.

My true passion is in the prosecution of criminal cases.

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

I would never tell young people to break the law or avoid prosecution.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

I was a journalism major in college, went to law school, and became a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. I loved it and was with the Department of Justice for years.

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Sadly, as a seasoned prosecutor, I know what dark acts people are capable of.

I love prosecuting cases, and I love doing investigations, particularly homicide investigations and the like, and that's why I became a prosecutor.

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.

As a former prosecutor, I never presented a case in front of the grand jury that didn't result in an indictment. Bottom line: If a prosecutor wants to indict a case, the case gets indicted.

You know, I'm a former federal prosecutor. Before ICE was ICE, I did a lot of cases with Customs Enforcement.