Amit Shah Quotes

Changes in court decisions [on defendants' rights] ... have about the same effect on the crime rate as an aspirin would have on a tumor of the brain.

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

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

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

Being a public defender makes you incredibly paranoid - and I would say with reason - about law enforcement.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

We have determined as a society, as a country, as a people, that the incarceration and the supervision and the specific fines for a particular crime are that person's debt to society.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

We spend an awful lot of money on the criminal justice system that could better be spent at the other end of the spectrum.

The States have always borne primary responsibility for operating the machinery of criminal justice within their borders, and adapting it to their peculiar circumstances.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

Due process does not require that every conceivable step be taken, at whatever cost, to eliminate the possibility of convicting an innocent person. To conclude otherwise would all but paralyze our system for enforcement of the criminal law.

The criminal justice system is not working and people want something that works.

The justice system is confused in trying to understand it, but frankly, if it paid attention to the really blatant cases and did a good job with that, we would be light years ahead of where we are now.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.

Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.

We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.

I want to see changes in our criminal justice system.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.