Dianne Feinstein Quotes

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

The system is not perfect. Reversals prove that the system works.

Courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

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

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

A point concerning property, which ought, for the reasons I have just mentioned, to be most speedily decided, frequently exercises the wit of successions of lawyers, for many generations .… But the question concerning a man’s life, that great question in which no delay ought to be counted tedious, is commonly determined in twenty-four hours at the utmost. It is not to be wondered at that injustice and absurdity should be inseparable companions.

… the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.

China has not established the rule of law and thus there is no justice.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

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

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.