Al Sharpton Quotes

There's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

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

Using legally approved tricks and lies, the detective coerces a false confession. Hiding facts that support innocence, the prosecutor forces a dubious plea of guilt. The judge sentences for acquitted conduct, as she is allowed to do. The defense attorney for the poor, overworked because of underfunding by the state, fails to summon sufficient resources to investigate and rebut. The legal immigrant is deported with no meaningful access to constitutional rights. These intrusions are woven into the statutes and enabled by courts

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

I served in two administrations very high up in the Justice Department.

The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president's lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.

I couldn't vote to confirm any candidate who supports executive amnesty. The attorney general is a top law enforcement officer in this country - the senior person - and anyone who occupies that office must have fidelity to the laws of the United States duly passed, and to the Constitution of the United States.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

My earliest memories are of visiting the justice department.

I have the utmost confidence in Sen. Sessions, now General Sessions.

America is very fortunate to have Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

We are a nation of laws.

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

The law of England is a law of liberty .

Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Laws themselves, political Constitutions, are not our Life; but only the house wherein our Life is led.

The idea that [Jeff Sessions] is the man who is going to end the progress on the drug war makes me want to rip my hair out, every carefully nurtured curl on my head.

I know the bottom of the Justice Department, and I know the top.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.