Eliot Spitzer Quotes

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Law is a bottomless pit.

Law alone cannot make men see right.

Courtroom dramas can be boring.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

We've begun to get justice.

Justice for all is not to be secured in a day.

The law exists to express our values.

The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.

If there is anything I am about, it is I want justice in society.

The law is very special to me.

The law is for everyone.

We need a proper balance between rights and responsibilities in our laws.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal arguments - it was all exciting stuff for a kid.

Being the DA was, without a doubt, the best job in the world. I loved knowing that people would get their justice.

I believe it is my job to do everything I can so that everyone in our society feels safe, feels that justice is not an abstract concept but a fact of life for all Americans.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.