Frank Lautenberg Quotes

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

I hope today’s bill is a pedophile’s nightmare.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

If you the American citizen leave a child in a hot car and that child was harmed by that you will be charged with negligence even if your action was unintentional.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence.

My personal position is that society must keep children safe.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

I rise today in strong support of the Children's Safety and Violent Crime Reduction Act, because it is a commonsense way to protect our schoolchildren from pedophiles.

No civilized society ought to fear for the safety of its children.

if you do countenance those that are transgressors of the law you are in the same fact.

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

The truth is this: Brutalized, victimized children invariably will brutalize and victimize when they grow up. Is our only response to this the certain promise that we will penalize them when they do? Or will we commit to keeping our children safe from brutality and victimization?

Engaging in actions which are not allowed by law should have certain prices to pay.

Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.

I would like to use the law of this land to do everything I possibly can to protect America's children from abuse and violence and to give to each of them the opportunity to grow to be strong, healthy and self-sufficient citizens of this country.

Martha Stewart is being prosecuted not for who she is but what she did.