About Quote by Jed S. Rakoff

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

— Jed S. Rakoff

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

— Jed S. Rakoff

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

— Jed S. Rakoff

I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole…

— Jed S. Rakoff

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company…

— Jed S. Rakoff

I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation was passed…

— Jed S. Rakoff

If crimes are committed, they are committed by people; they are not committed by some free-floating entity. These companies and other entities don't operate…

— Jed S. Rakoff

I've never been impressed with bureaucratic tradition. I don't like it when the parties come to me and say, 'This is the way that…

— Jed S. Rakoff

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

— Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

— Jed S. Rakoff

Everything needs to be public. The legitimacy of the courts comes from the fact that they reason openly, on the record, based on facts.

— Jed S. Rakoff

In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that…

— Jed S. Rakoff