Quotes About Justice

This is America, not a banana republic.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.

If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.

Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a party to this, are criminalizing them and sending them back, inhumanely.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

In America no one should go hungry.

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

It's common knowledge that most of the guys at Guantanamo are nobodies. Many were turned in by bounty hunters.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

Keeping some people behind bars often hurts more than it helps - not only for the people who had been incarcerated and their families but also for society in general.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.