Rafik Hariri Quotes

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.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

If you abuse the public trust, we're going to find you, and and we're going to prosecute you.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

I think that you are a war criminal, and I am going to do everything in my power to see that you will be tried as one.

The United States normally punishes war crimes as such only if their committed by enemy nationals.

We’re going to find out who did this, and we’re going to kick their asses.

We have crime without punishment.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

If you attack innocent American civilians, we will follow you to the end of the Earth.

Some leaders, of course, have also committed crimes, and they have blood on their hands. Or they have secret accounts with stolen money. And so if they leave, people will come after them. So they just don’t leave. Like in Sudan: if you leave, you end up at the International Criminal Court. Staying in power is a form of insurance policy against the long arm of the law.

We want those responsible for the attack on Zee TV to be arrested and punished.

I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal court has some guts and charges white war criminals. They need to face justice just like other war criminals.

People are calling on me to put corrupt people into prison. Where do you start?

I want to tell the law and order machinery not to spare anyone who indulges in unlawful activities.

Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted.

It is, from my perspective, less important today looking backwards as to why these militants decided they did it than to find them and bring them to justice, and then maybe we'll figure out what was going on in the meantime.

[N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or the forces operating there....The new government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to act. It must now generate the political will to act. The protection of those responsible for this crime can no longer be tolerated.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.