Pat Roberts Quotes

Our laws must protect victims.

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

I have faith in the jury system.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

I have great faith in the jury system.

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

Trial by jury, the best of all safeguards for the person, the property, and the fame of every individual.

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

To talk about justice in the justice system is an oxymoron.

Why do we love this trial by jury? Because it prevents the hand of oppression from cutting you off.

Trial by jury slows the wheels of justice.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

I believe in the jury system.

Victims want to know that the true perpetrators of their crime are convicted - legal aid helps achieve this.

At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

All victims deserve justice.

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

There was no direct way to prevent the Boston murders. There are some easy ways to prevent likely future ones: by not inciting them. That's also true of another case of a suspect murdered, his body disposed of without autopsy, when he could easily have been apprehended and brought to trial: Osama bin Laden.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.