Bernard B. Kerik Quotes

#1. It is quick to over punish and uninterested in rewarding good behavior. What would we say about an individual who had these characteristics? Mean? Cruel? Heartless? Mindless? Hypocritical? Stupid?

Bernard B. Kerik

#2. That infamous day was the most powerful reminder I have ever been given that you should never take life for granted and should treat each day as if it's your last.

Bernard B. Kerik

#3. In a free and democratic society such as ours, justice should not eternally abrogate one's rights to freedom and liberty, except in the most extreme cases.

Bernard B. Kerik

#4. There is no greater threat to a free and democratic nation than a government that fails to protect its citizen's freedom and liberty as aggressively as it pursues justice.

Bernard B. Kerik

#5. It smelled like a slaughterhouse. I was standing in the interrogation room of Saddam Hussein's Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. A stench of blood and death permeated my senses, my clothes, my being.

Bernard B. Kerik

#6. No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.

Bernard B. Kerik

#7. American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

Bernard B. Kerik