Quotes About Law

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

Under international law, defendants convicted in absentia have the right to a retrial, unless the prosecutors for the authorities who do finally capture them can show that the defendants knew they were under indictment.

Attorneys general, district attorneys, and federal prosecutors have a responsibility to separate their politics from their law enforcement powers.

We followed the law, we follow our policies, we self-report, we identify problems, we fix them. And I think we do a great job, and we do, I think, more to protect people's civil liberties and privacy than they'll ever know.

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

All repressive laws must be revoked, and laws introduced to protect the rights of the people.

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

You can't have some institutions that are protected by the law, not allowed to fail, and not held to account, and all the other companies in America are allowed to fail. You can't have equal justice under law and too big to fail.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

I want police to be protected.

The bottom line is, our law enforcement is tasked with protecting us from harm - not with creating it by levying penalties for 'offenses' that present no real risk to anyone.

In addition to protecting the rights of every citizen of our country, our Constitution makes the citizens of the country mindful of their duties.

There's nothing partisan about following the law and protecting our national security.