Elise Stefanik Quotes

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

No one is above the law.

No one is above the law, and no one is beneath the law.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than our humblest citizen, so that we can end the double standard of justice in America.

We can not subscribe to one law for the weak and another law for the strong; one law for us, another for our opponents.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental

We contend that in all laws made, or to be made, every person shall be bound alike—neither should any tenure, estate, charter, degree, birth or place, confer any exemption from the ordinary course of legal proceedings and responsibilities whereunto others are subjected.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'

I don't believe anyone is above the law.

I don't think it's right that there's one set of rules for one individual and another set of rules and laws for another individual. That's not the way the world should work.

Every person deserves to be treated fairly under the law.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Justice is truth in action.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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.

To be clear... no one is above the law.