Mikie Sherrill Quotes

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

People abusing their power makes me see red.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Abusers of power make enemies who eventually get even.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

People who exploit their power and abuse others need to be revealed.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

I can't even begin to tell you how many casting couches I was attacked on. Not just by casting people, but by stars.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

Crime is contagious.

The power to investigate and prosecute is the power to destroy.

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.