Donald Trump Quotes

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

Within the realm of the law, we have to be as severe as we can. We will not simply give capital punishment to all criminals, but those who deserve it will get it.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Acts of individuals are individual. As such they should be tried and punished.

… degrees of crookedness are usually measured only by opportunity. I have always had a feeling that society ought to look with more disfavor on the man who profits from other people's crimes than on the criminals themselves.

Only those who till the king’s land have to pay a tax on the profits they make. Those who want to go away may go.... The king and his administration uses no corporal punishment; criminals are merely fined according to the gravity of their offense.

As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.

I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.

Judges have a hard job. It's not just putting someone in jail or slapping someone on the wrist and giving them a punishment, but it's protecting society as a whole.

We have judicial system in Sudan. Anyone who committed a war crime, anti-human crime, or any other crime will be locked up.

A lot can be debated about criminal justice and its delivery system.

While I live, every criminal must die.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

The responsibility of the Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is to determine whether crimes have been committed and to prosecute those crimes under the principles of federal prosecution.

Michael Cohen is a criminal, and he deserves the max penalty.

No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors, and brought to justice.

There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.