American Justice System Quotes

#1. My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids.

Trevor Noah

#2. Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

Tommy Chong

#3. Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. I tend to land roles that are somewhat villainous for some reason. Usually, people blame it on the accent.

India De Beaufort

#5. Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

John Garamendi

#6. Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

Paul Gillmor

#7. After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the American criminal justice system resembles the Soviet Union's gulag - the latter punished ideas, the former punishes a condition.

David Levering Lewis

#8. Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

J.K. Rowling

#9. I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Sam Sheppard

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

Bernard B. Kerik

#11. We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans and spare change for eternity.

Natalie Angier

#12. I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine.

George Carlin

#13. You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.

Anthony Fauci

#14. You think you're going to impress an American jury with [your] words? In the eyes of the Americans, you're doomed. Just looking at you in an orange suit, chains, and being Muslim and Arabic is enough to convict you.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#15. You're a lunatic. You ran me over with a goddamn Buick.

Janet Evanovich

#16. The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Ernest Istook

#17. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#18. Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.

Larry Elder

#19. She hated him then. Hated the way he stripped her bare. The way he knew her failings before she knew them herself.

Sarah MacLean

#20. And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever
Has come and gone before I knew.

Li Shang-yin

#21. Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in which over 50% of young African-American kids are unemployed, it is estimated that a black baby born today has a one in four chance of ending up in the criminal justice system.

Bernie Sanders

#22. One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system - in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole - yet mass incarceration tends to be categorized as a criminal justice issue as opposed to a racial justice or civil rights issue (or crisis)

Michelle Alexander

#23. Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.

Jan C. Ting

#24. I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Audrey Hepburn

#25. You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Barack Obama