John Milius Quotes

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

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.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

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. I am not prepared to believe that this indicates any decay in the moral fiber of the American people. I am not prepared to believe that it indicates an impotence of the Federal Government to enforce its laws.

No penal or political system which multiplies the population of the prisons at the rate of 10 per cent every year will solve a problem which is growing to be more and more of a danger to the social and moral life of the nation.

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.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

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

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.

Ranger sent us to check on you," Hal said. "We just got here, and we heard shots." "Some moron ate my jelly doughnut," Lula said. "So I shot him.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy.

Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and gone to jail.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.