Quotes About Law

Accountability for police officers should be an expectation, not an aberration.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

I come from a police family. Both my parents are police officers.

Congressman Lacy Clay and I believe that there's no excuse for shooting at police officers, law enforcement officers who get up in the morning and go out and put their lives on the line to protect us.

God, I've played a lot of policeman.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

Maybe I have some god-given gift to act as a policeman.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

Invest more in policing, not less.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.

The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.

If political leaders want respect, they will begin by enforcing the global rule of law.

In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured.

India has a law. The political parties or the religious heads have no right to control that law.

There can be no activist judges from any political party.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

I went to college and majored in political science.

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.