John Daly Quotes

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

Can I suggest that the sheriff and the district attorney, in the lunch break, go out and read the Constitution.

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.

The justice system is confused in trying to understand it, but frankly, if it paid attention to the really blatant cases and did a good job with that, we would be light years ahead of where we are now.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

God bless the U.S. court system.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

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

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

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.

Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

The job of a justice is justice.