Sally Yates Quotes

Public confidence should govern political appointments.

I'm very mindful of the need to ensure we have a criminal justice system in which people have confidence.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

In the criminal justice system, the law-abiding citizen comes first.

It is such an important thing to shake the public's faith in justice so that we take greater concern with justice. Without skepticism, we tend to believe that justice is always done and that you can trust the legal system.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

The essence of good government is trust.

The public must be assured that prosecutorial decisions are made on legal and not political grounds.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done

Justice must be seen to be done.

We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.

The special counsel regulations were written to provide the public with confidence that justice was done.

Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us.

The British public cannot be treated like fools.

I get it, cops deal with a lot, but at the same time, we crave justice, and we do want to believe things are going to be all right.

At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.