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Criminal justice Quote by Tim Kaine

“Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.” quote by Tim Kaine — Download Open image

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

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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

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You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that…

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My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

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I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

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This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is…

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America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had…

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Bill of Rights was Madison, I'm going with Madison.

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No bill works if it doesn't work in a zip code where somebody lives.

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The Trump campaign management team had to be fired a month or so ago because of those shadowy connections with pro-Putin forces. Governor Pence made the odd claim, he said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama. Vladimir Putin has run his economy into the ground. He persecutes LGBT folks and journalists. If you don't know the…

The permanent institutional expertise class is now no longer the legislators, it's the lobbyists who don't have term limits and are there forever.

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You know, boy, America is a closely divided country.

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If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

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“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of punishment that certainly concerns the body itself: rationing of food, sexual deprivation, corporal punishment, solitary confinement … There remains, therefore, a trace of ‘torture’ in the modern mechanisms of criminal justice – a trace that has…

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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 anymore.

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The people who have been unjustly disenfranchised by our criminal justice system and the people who daily fight for them always have, and always…

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Like a lot of people, I'm very, very concerned about Senator Clinton's record. I'm very, very concerned about where her positions were in the…

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We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know - what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for…

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

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A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our…

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