Amul Thapar Quotes

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.

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.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

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

Thou shalt not ration justice.

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

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

Let's create a legal system that can work.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

If you treat defendants by the same rules of courtesy as everyone else – give them fundamental due process, treat them with dignity, you'll get it back.

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

Justice in this country is an insurance policy. It’s not something that we’re supposed to get sometimes.

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.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

As to the long time spent on lawsuits, that is due to concern for justice, that judges may not fail in passing correct judgments, by having to give sentence offhand; it is better that they should reflect, and conclude the case more tardily, than that by judging in a hurry they should both injure man and transgress against the Deity, the institutor of justice....

In the criminal justice community, as a judge, being tough is not enough. You have to be fair.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

A bedrock principle of our justice system is ensuring a fair day in court, something that is especially important for children who cannot advocate for themselves.

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished.

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

There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.