Quotes About Law

The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.

Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.

Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

I believe in the rule of law, and I respect the will of Colorado voters.

Any district attorney knows that an endorsement from law enforcement unions is vital to earning voters' trust. As a result, police unions play an outsized role in district attorney elections.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.

I used to practice criminal law, and it was so sexist.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

A shootout is a shootout. You go in and get the bad guys.

My years in law enforcement taught me that those who wear the badge are often called to the profession because of their desire to protect others and improve their communities.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

I'm trying to demystify the whole process. Make it simple, make it palatable. I want people to have respect for the law, and I want to educate people on the basics of the law.

I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.

only between 5 percent and 20 percent of forcible rapes in the United States are reported to the police; a paltry 0.4 percent to 5.4 percent of rapes are ever prosecuted; and just 0.2 percent to 2.8 percent of forcible rapes culminate in a conviction that includes any time in jail for the assailant. Here's another way to think about these numbers: When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. —

In the adversarial system, it's more important to follow legal procedure than to speak the truth.

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime. —

It's the police, for the most part, who decide whether a suspect should be arrested, and prosecutors who ultimately determine whether a conviction should be pursued.

Johnson said: "John Kennedy's death commands what his life conveyed—that America must move forward. Let us turn away from the fanatics of the far left and the far right, from the apostles of bitterness and bigotry, from those defiant of law, and those who pour venom into our Nation's bloodstream.

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In 1928, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New York law requiring the Klan to file membership lists with state authorities on the grounds that, as the appellate court in the case wrote, "It is a matter of common knowledge that the association or organization"—the Klan—"exercises activities tending to the prejudice and intimidation of sundry classes of our citizens.

Disaster would come, Bryce believed, at the hands of a demagogic president with an enthusiastic public base. "A bold President who knew himself to be supported by a majority in the country, might be tempted to override the law, and deprive the minority of the protection which the law affords it," Bryce wrote. "He might be a tyrant, not against the masses, but with the masses.

But where, say some, is the king of America?" Paine wrote. "I'll tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Great Britain….For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.

We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.