I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

I tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

I did not learn the flaws of the criminal-justice system in law school or college or by reading about it. I grew up knowing the flaws and how it was disproportionately impacting the black community. It’s not academic for me.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.