Criminal law Quote by James Duane

“The Constitution names only three federal offenses: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Today there are over forty-five hundred federal crimes, and the number continues to…

— John Grisham

“And that is just the list of federal criminal statutes; the states have an even greater number of crimes on the books.”

— James Duane

“Because of laws like these and countless others, legal experts now agree that just about everybody in the nation, whether they know it or…

— James Duane

The United States has so many laws, into the millions, that experts have lost track of just how many laws we have.

— Shaun King

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's…

— Jill Abramson

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

— Donella Meadows

The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less…

— Oliver North

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

— Friedrich Engels

“Law enforcement ignore many crimes until the statute of limitations prevents the illegal activities from being investigated.”

— Steven Magee

It's not the function of Congress to do criminal investigations.

— Saxby Chambliss

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to…

— John Kaplan

“Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes…

— Michelle Alexander