Quotes About Justice

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

We believe in rule of law not rule by decree.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

I know deep down I'm not a racist.

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

We need to defeat not just antisemites but antisemitism.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.

The only thing I can do is continue to defend myself.

You defend the truth no matter what.

Listen, not everybody can afford to get a great lawyer and defend yourself against something that you didn't do.

I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

I believe in the right to defend yourself.

I defend CNN! I defend all sorts of people when I think it's wrong.

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

I told the truth when I said I have never been arrested. I have never been handcuffed or fingerprinted. I have never appeared in court as a defendant.

I defended our Constitution and I always will.

As attorney general I see my role as defender both of press freedom and of the fair administration of justice.