Prosecuting Quotes

#1. Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

Dan Quayle

#2. Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it's understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

Donald Evans

#3. I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Jim Garrison

#4. Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same officers. They are under extreme pressure from local police unions and from rank-and-file cops.

Al Sharpton

#5. Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

Thomas Jefferson

#6. It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

Solomon Ortiz

#7. Some fifteen percent of the 6,500 staff members working at Auschwitz would eventually be convicted of war crimes, with the government of Poland being among the most active in investigating and prosecuting war criminals.

Larry Berg

#8. I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Sonia Sotomayor

#9. RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Always following behind a prosecuting attorney, one defense counselor or another was unwittingly drawn into a debate with the previous speaker.

Jason Lucky Morrow

#11. I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

Barack Obama

#12. Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

Leigh Steinberg

#13. Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

F. Lee Bailey

#14. Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

Jed S. Rakoff

#15. I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

Nancy Grace

#16. If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

#17. I believe the LIE that prosecuting bank fraud will destabilize the U.S economy is what is really destroying it.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#18. My customary exercise consists of a short stroll from the Temple tube to Equity Court, and rising to object to impertinent questions put by prosecuting counsel.

John Mortimer

#19. Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.

Malcolm Turnbull

#20. Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere ...
I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture.

George W. Bush

#21. I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

Robert Mueller

#22. I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

Denis Kearney

#23. The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#24. He had spent so long working with the police, everything was a conspiracy to him.

Kenneth Eade

#25. God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

Sheila Walsh

#26. There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

Justin Vernon

#27. The reason we're often not there for others - whether for our child or our mother or someone who is insulting us or someone who frightens us - is that we're not there for ourselves.

Pema Chodron

#28. You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

Patrick Rothfuss

#29. Most of our competitors were one-product wonders ... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Bill Gates

#30. Jail is more commonly-suited to those less-commonly able to finance a defense (or to potentially pander the prosecution). The choices for council is either a retained lawyer or, by default, a public defender. In the later of these two, the common title in jail was 'public pretender'.

H. Kirk Rainer