Morgenthau Robert Quotes

#1. I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

David Ortiz

#2. It is Hillary's [Clinton] star power that radiates to every corner of the ballroom. New York bigwigs, such as financial-media impresario Michael Bloomberg, attorney and labor mediator Theodore Kheel, and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, crane to see her.

Gail Sheehy

#3. Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against crime.

Robert M. Morgenthau

#4. Everything is autobiographical, and nothing is autobiographical. That's fiction.

Lisa Unger

#5. Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

Noam Chomsky

#6. That's when I figured out the ugly secret of a mother's love: you protect them to protect yourself.

Gayle Forman

#7. Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

Alex Berenson

#8. The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

Robert M. Morgenthau

#9. I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

V.E Schwab

#10. I didn't make you come here." Jin's eyes bored into mine, but I wasn't backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. "I didn't trick you and I didn't ask you to.

Alwyn Hamilton

#11. I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

Chantal Joffe

#12. I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

Robert M. Morgenthau

#13. I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

Jello Biafra

#14. As Morgenthau points out, small- and medium-sized states like Israel, Great Britain, France, and Iran cannot absorb the same level of punishment as continental-sized states such as the United States, Russia, and China, so that they lack the requisite credibility in their nuclear threats.

Robert D. Kaplan