Jeanine Pirro Quotes

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

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

Justice is incidental to law and order

As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....

We’re not here to secure convictions; we are here to secure justice.

The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That's what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.