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The New Jersey procedure challenged in this case is an unacceptable departure from the jury traditio...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE This is a prank where no harm was intended or caused. This should be handled administratively and no...
BRYAN WILLIAMS Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,
JOHN CONTE At least the attorneys got the name of their system right when they called it the Criminal Justice S...
BOBBY W. MILLER![]()
Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system.
SUSANA MARTINEZ![]()
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department......
DAVID BOHM I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the Ame...
SAM SHEPPARD They're our smallest victims. You have to prepare them for dealing with the criminal justice system,...
AMA DWIMOH Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our ...
JAN C. TING The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of t...
JONATHAN LARSEN We're very hopeful that the court will uphold this act of Congress and agree that there is some flex...
PAUL CASSELL![]()
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system ...
TA-NEHISI COATES![]()
I ask for calm yet resolute voices to be heard in our communities. It is imperative that people of g...
MARCIA FUDGE Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
WENDY DAVIS It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice sy...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. There can be no closure and no justice based on lies. That is not our system.
KATHRYN KASE Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ![]()
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ So in many communities, the water that comes out of the tap could be contaminated with scores of che...
JANE HOULIHAN![]()
I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across...
CORY BOOKER![]()
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal j...
KAMALA HARRIS He has zero criminal record. This is his first interaction with the criminal justice system.
ADAM BERNSTEIN This case started in an unusual way, but I'm happy today it's in a criminal court proceeding. Mr. Pa...
ANDREW PATEL![]()
There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to...
SCOTT WALKER![]()
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
HENRY LOUIS GATES This is the second significant error by the government affecting the constitutional rights of the de...
LEONIE BRINKEMA![]()
We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have...
MARCO RUBIO![]()
The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.
JANET RENO It underscores the notion that we've rid Jim Crow of much of our society. But Jim Crow still lives i...
HUGH PRICE It underscores the notion that we've rid Jim Crow of much of our society, ... But Jim Crow still liv...
HUGH PRICE Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial syst...
JOHN ENSIGN![]()
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as ...
STEVE EARLE This is about whether the criminal justice system has any role in the war on terror.
JULIETTE KAYYEM This case is not about money because this boy is a cancer victim of stage four who is in danger of d...
MAUREEN ORTH Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr...
BARRY SCHECK Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr...
BARRY SCHECK![]()
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more ...
BARACK OBAMA The criminal justice system is often perceived as remote and unresponsive. Research shows local, vis...
BEN ROGERS![]()
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle...
HILLARY CLINTON![]()
It's very discouraging to know that in the criminal justice system the people in control don't have ...
BURKE MARSHALL![]()
Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's all...
JOHN CORNYN![]()
Let's create a legal system that can work.
SAM BROWNBACK![]()
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric ...
ERNEST ISTOOK We certainly need to secure the borders. I'm opposed to a border system that works like a sieve We a...
REP. TERRI MCCORMICK Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised...
ADRIENNE WORTHY Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right ...
THOMAS CARPER This shows we have faith in the American justice system. This has shown that America is not only the...
AHMED BEDIER We are encouraged that the legal system is working to protect the community.
JEFFREY HERMAN![]()
I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death pe...
NEIL GAIMAN It is unconscionable that the accused killer, who was captured by video cameras fatally attacking Sc...
BRYAN LOWRY Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we ...
BRENDAN GILFILLAN There are alternatives to the criminal justice approach to drug policy in Kansas. The public health ...
LAURA GREEN The bottom line is that the private sector has no business running our prisons. This is one of the m...
TED STRICKLAND This is about history, it is about how our justice system responded to the worst terrorist attack on...
GERALD ZERKIN The cultural shift that it is acceptable to tell people not to come to court to testify imperils the...
LYNNE ABRAHAM This survey is a clear message to the citizens of California that our out-of-control legal system is...
DAVID HOUSTON Human smuggling is an enforcement priority for ICE because it undermines the integrity of our nation...
LEIGH WINCHELL The rule of law has continued to prevail over the emotion of the moment, the cornerstone attribute o...
LOUIS FREEH The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabili...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD [The American Civil Liberties Union calls Martinez's situation] a textbook case of the waste, cruelt...
BILL LOCKYER The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAW It is a long and somewhat tedious process, but it is of utmost importance... to the criminal justice...
LEONARD SAND We also continue to invest in our system reliability in the field. For example, we are spending incr...
FRED STOFFEL The Florida legislature is to be commended for taking this important step towards fixing our broken ...
SLADE O'BRIEN No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal ju...
BILL SCOTT There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the na...
MONTESQUIEU The women of South Dakota will still be able to access safe and legal abortion as this case works it...
KATE LOOBY Second-guessing is as bad for the criminal justice system as it is for football games. I have a real...
GARY GIBSON We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to...
ADAM COHEN Many of our Latino kids, that we have in our system, are brilliant kids.... but, we as a system have...
ANDREW KELLY![]()
It is not a deterrent. It is in a very real sense a revenge by society. ... Revenge is not a proper ...
PAUL SIMON There is also a widespread paralysis of the legal system in our area. The bankruptcy court in New Or...
DAVID RUBIN Our justice system doesn't seem to be adequate to handling the problems.
CHUCK KREIMER They have felt for six years that this shooting was completely unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and...
DAVID ROSEN I don't think the justice system in Suffolk County is prepared to admit that in what was possibly th...
BARRY POLLACK Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU Everyone knows the current system is not working as it should.
JACK SHEEHAN![]()
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.
TOM PRICE If you make a system that can be manipulated, unfortunately in our current political environment, it...
ION SANCHO If a player's No. 1 priority is just to showcase his skills, that won't work here. They have to lear...
DOUG WAGEMESTER![]()
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either desi...
CHARLES CURTIS As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is...
KELLY AYOTTE![]()
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evide...
ROBERT P. MCCULLOCH Attacks on judges are an attack on the legal system and justice itself,
LOUIS BUTLER As you know, Mr. Morgan pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent in our system of justice.
FERN ADELSTEIN Mr. Fitzgerald has proven that we are all better off without an independent counsel law, ... The con...
J. DAVIS![]()
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
EDMUND BARTON The health system is usually weak ... We should really strengthen our health systems and surveillanc...
HONORE MEDA We could not be happier that our legal system is going to protect Young. I am convinced he is going ...
JOHN SULLIVAN When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens ...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL![]()
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES![]()
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY A message there needs to be some changes in our justice system and a message that we need an effecti...
DON SCHIEMANN![]()
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It i...
ELIOT SPITZER We are duty bound to protect our judges' integrity and the legal system,
LOUIS BUTLER![]()
I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes ...
CORY BOOKER People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
HELEN GARNER
JOHN PAUL STEVENS Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE This is a prank where no harm was intended or caused. This should be handled administratively and no...
BRYAN WILLIAMS Our system of justice is not and should not be a system of frontier justice,
JOHN CONTE At least the attorneys got the name of their system right when they called it the Criminal Justice S...
BOBBY W. MILLER
Experience has taught me that privacy truly is the touchstone of our criminal justice system. SUSANA MARTINEZ
A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department...... DAVID BOHM I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the Ame...
SAM SHEPPARD They're our smallest victims. You have to prepare them for dealing with the criminal justice system,...
AMA DWIMOH Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our ...
JAN C. TING The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of t...
JONATHAN LARSEN We're very hopeful that the court will uphold this act of Congress and agree that there is some flex...
PAUL CASSELL
We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system ... TA-NEHISI COATES
I ask for calm yet resolute voices to be heard in our communities. It is imperative that people of g... MARCIA FUDGE Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
WENDY DAVIS It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice sy...
WILLIAM LACY CLAY, JR. There can be no closure and no justice based on lies. That is not our system.
KATHRYN KASE Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected. ALAN DERSHOWITZ So in many communities, the water that comes out of the tap could be contaminated with scores of che...
JANE HOULIHAN
I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across... CORY BOOKER
We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal j... KAMALA HARRIS He has zero criminal record. This is his first interaction with the criminal justice system.
ADAM BERNSTEIN This case started in an unusual way, but I'm happy today it's in a criminal court proceeding. Mr. Pa...
ANDREW PATEL
There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to... SCOTT WALKER
I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. HENRY LOUIS GATES This is the second significant error by the government affecting the constitutional rights of the de...
LEONIE BRINKEMA
We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have... MARCO RUBIO
The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly. JANET RENO It underscores the notion that we've rid Jim Crow of much of our society. But Jim Crow still lives i...
HUGH PRICE It underscores the notion that we've rid Jim Crow of much of our society, ... But Jim Crow still liv...
HUGH PRICE Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial syst...
JOHN ENSIGN
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as ... STEVE EARLE This is about whether the criminal justice system has any role in the war on terror.
JULIETTE KAYYEM This case is not about money because this boy is a cancer victim of stage four who is in danger of d...
MAUREEN ORTH Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr...
BARRY SCHECK Crime labs should be an independent force within the criminal-justice system, not beholden to the pr...
BARRY SCHECK
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more ... BARACK OBAMA The criminal justice system is often perceived as remote and unresponsive. Research shows local, vis...
BEN ROGERS
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is cle... HILLARY CLINTON
It's very discouraging to know that in the criminal justice system the people in control don't have ... BURKE MARSHALL
Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's all... JOHN CORNYN
Let's create a legal system that can work. SAM BROWNBACK
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric ... ERNEST ISTOOK We certainly need to secure the borders. I'm opposed to a border system that works like a sieve We a...
REP. TERRI MCCORMICK Part of the focus is educating people about the day-to-day work we do at Legal Aid. ... We've raised...
ADRIENNE WORTHY Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right ...
THOMAS CARPER This shows we have faith in the American justice system. This has shown that America is not only the...
AHMED BEDIER We are encouraged that the legal system is working to protect the community.
JEFFREY HERMAN
I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death pe... NEIL GAIMAN It is unconscionable that the accused killer, who was captured by video cameras fatally attacking Sc...
BRYAN LOWRY Our park system is a vital system that needs to be preserved but to be sure in the long run that we ...
BRENDAN GILFILLAN There are alternatives to the criminal justice approach to drug policy in Kansas. The public health ...
LAURA GREEN The bottom line is that the private sector has no business running our prisons. This is one of the m...
TED STRICKLAND This is about history, it is about how our justice system responded to the worst terrorist attack on...
GERALD ZERKIN The cultural shift that it is acceptable to tell people not to come to court to testify imperils the...
LYNNE ABRAHAM This survey is a clear message to the citizens of California that our out-of-control legal system is...
DAVID HOUSTON Human smuggling is an enforcement priority for ICE because it undermines the integrity of our nation...
LEIGH WINCHELL The rule of law has continued to prevail over the emotion of the moment, the cornerstone attribute o...
LOUIS FREEH The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabili...
BLAKE FARENTHOLD [The American Civil Liberties Union calls Martinez's situation] a textbook case of the waste, cruelt...
BILL LOCKYER The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAW It is a long and somewhat tedious process, but it is of utmost importance... to the criminal justice...
LEONARD SAND We also continue to invest in our system reliability in the field. For example, we are spending incr...
FRED STOFFEL The Florida legislature is to be commended for taking this important step towards fixing our broken ...
SLADE O'BRIEN No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitud...
MARGUERITE THOMAS Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal ju...
BILL SCOTT There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the na...
MONTESQUIEU The women of South Dakota will still be able to access safe and legal abortion as this case works it...
KATE LOOBY Second-guessing is as bad for the criminal justice system as it is for football games. I have a real...
GARY GIBSON We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to...
ADAM COHEN Many of our Latino kids, that we have in our system, are brilliant kids.... but, we as a system have...
ANDREW KELLY
It is not a deterrent. It is in a very real sense a revenge by society. ... Revenge is not a proper ... PAUL SIMON There is also a widespread paralysis of the legal system in our area. The bankruptcy court in New Or...
DAVID RUBIN Our justice system doesn't seem to be adequate to handling the problems.
CHUCK KREIMER They have felt for six years that this shooting was completely unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and...
DAVID ROSEN I don't think the justice system in Suffolk County is prepared to admit that in what was possibly th...
BARRY POLLACK Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU Everyone knows the current system is not working as it should.
JACK SHEEHAN
Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system. TOM PRICE If you make a system that can be manipulated, unfortunately in our current political environment, it...
ION SANCHO If a player's No. 1 priority is just to showcase his skills, that won't work here. They have to lear...
DOUG WAGEMESTER
I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ... ROBERT KENNEDY The system should not have failed in this way, it should have held together. And there's either desi...
CHARLES CURTIS As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is...
KELLY AYOTTE
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evide... ROBERT P. MCCULLOCH Attacks on judges are an attack on the legal system and justice itself,
LOUIS BUTLER As you know, Mr. Morgan pleaded not guilty. He is presumed innocent in our system of justice.
FERN ADELSTEIN Mr. Fitzgerald has proven that we are all better off without an independent counsel law, ... The con...
J. DAVIS
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. EDMUND BARTON The health system is usually weak ... We should really strengthen our health systems and surveillanc...
HONORE MEDA We could not be happier that our legal system is going to protect Young. I am convinced he is going ...
JOHN SULLIVAN When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens ...
CLAIRE MCCASKILL
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... WILLIAM JAMES
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY A message there needs to be some changes in our justice system and a message that we need an effecti...
DON SCHIEMANN
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It i... ELIOT SPITZER We are duty bound to protect our judges' integrity and the legal system,
LOUIS BUTLER
I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes ... CORY BOOKER People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
HELEN GARNER
