Criminal law Quote by John Yoo

“He laughed, a low, sexy growl, as she moaned in obvious frustration. “Patience is a virtue,” he said. “Torture is a federal offense,” she…

— Carla Cassidy

The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

— Ed Markey

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

— John Yoo

uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea…

— Gwen Bristow

There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?

— Rachel Martin

In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard…

— John Yoo

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield,…

— John Yoo

Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up…

— Preet Bharara

“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system…

— Neil Gaiman

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every…

— Bertrand Russell

It is important that New York City is in compliance with international criminal law.

— Zohran Mamdani

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,…

— Luanne Rice

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…

— Frederic Bastiat

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly…

— Kenneth Lay