George Zimmerman Quotes

Before I became Attorney General, I won’t say that I stayed up at night worrying about civil rights

People send their kids to law school to uphold the rule of law - not to fight in the streets for justice and not to be beaten up.

Delay in justice is injustice.

More law, less justice.

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

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.

I had gone to law school thinking that I would do something in the service of black people.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

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

One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label.

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.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Well you know, all law is about injustice.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.