Louis Freeh Quotes

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That's what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

The States have always borne primary responsibility for operating the machinery of criminal justice within their borders, and adapting it to their peculiar circumstances.

Changes in court decisions [on defendants' rights] ... have about the same effect on the crime rate as an aspirin would have on a tumor of the brain.

Our Constitution does not require that all crimes be solved.

I gathered, in the investigation I made as Chairman of the Committee of the American Law Institute, statistics from a majority of the States and I have carefully examined those gathered by other committees and commissions, and it is my judgment that of those committing major crimes … not one out of every ten is apprehended and adequately punished … that our system of apprehending and prosecuting those who commit major crimes is only from 10 per cent to 15 per cent efficient; that as to those apprehended and indicted for major offenses, it is only from 25 per cent to 30 per cent efficient … and that as to those actually tried for major offenses, it is not over 50 per cent efficient.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

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.

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

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.