Rachel Dolezal Quotes

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.

In the criminal justice system, the law-abiding citizen comes first.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

We ought to find a way for government to work for the people rather then have the people work for the government.

My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

It is the honor of a lifetime to serve as Director. I long ago grew to know and admire the FBI from my earliest days as a line prosecutor to my years as assistant attorney general.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

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

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

Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

The laws I love; the lawyers I suspect.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.