Rohini Nilekani Quotes

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

Laws are to govern all alike—those opposed as well as those who favor them.

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

The law should be no respecter of persons but should treat all alike, save where dissimilarity of treatment is required by positive reasons, either of justice or of policy.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Protections in law should be protections in fact.

The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.

A good law is one that holds, whether you recognize it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it.

Equality is equity.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

We have to govern by treating every single citizen equally.

That is the definition of equal justice under law: everyone gets a fair shot, everyone pays their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.

At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

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

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

I just believe in equality for all.

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.