Criminal justice Quotes

“a Democrat is a Republican who’s been through the criminal justice system.”

— Karin Slaughter

“Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.”

— John Grisham

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

— Michael K. Williams

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford

A question settled by violence, or in disregard of law, must remain unsettled forever.

— Jefferson Davis

I have complete faith and trust in our criminal justice system.

— Shamna Kasim

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

— Clarence Darrow

Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in…

— David Lammy

I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.

— Chris Grayling

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

— Tim Kaine

I want to help other people clear their records, and I want to help them avoid some of the loopholes that get…

— Angela Stanton-King

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

— Ronald Reagan

States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

— Michael Dean Crapo

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept…

— Steve Earle

Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.

— Michael J. Knowles

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does…

— Sam Sheppard

The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they're in silos. But…

— Michelle Alexander

As a prosecutor and a senator, one of my main criminal justice priorities has been enforcing and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women…

— Amy Klobuchar

The Commission agrees that the federal government should help alleviate these costs. The best way to do so is to reduce illegal…

— Barbara Jordan

In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution…

— George Gascon

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the…

— Eric Holder

So if you want a really effective criminal justice strategy, you don't build bigger prisons, you invest money in young kids -…

— Keir Starmer

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by…

— Robert P. McCulloch

I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising…

— Bernie Sanders

“Understanding African American attitudes and actions on matters of crime and punishment requires that we pay careful attention to another topic that…

— James Forman Jr

“Do we identify with a criminal in that we too secretly long to be judged? Popularly, being ‘judgemental’ is ill thought of…

— Helen Garner

“One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster—but…

— Gary A. Haugen

One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a…

— Bernie Sanders

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of…

— Mark Gevisser

What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with…

— Michelle Alexander

The various roles we incorporate into the criminal justice system as well as the ways in which we construe such roles, lend…

— John Kleinig

“When a criminal justice system works properly, it’s not because rational actors know that Big Brother is watching them 24/7 and will…

— Steven Pinker

“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and…

— Michelle Alexander

“The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society] The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of…

— Beatrix Campbell

“Forensic DNA Expert Anil Gupta offer a variety of DNA forensic testing systems including STR, Y-STR, and mitochondrial DNA. The DNA Sample…

— Anil Gupta

“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.…

— Sister Helen Prejean

“The supreme magistrate was not distinguished from the rest by superior habitation or revenue. On the other hand, the duties awarded to…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they…

— Bryan Stevenson

“If you don’t incapacitate violent actors, they keep pushing people around until someone makes them stop. When violent people are permitted to…

— Jill Leovy