Ayelet Shaked Quotes

The law itself is on trial in every case as well as the cause before it.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Common sense often makes good law.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

There is no major political issue in the country that does not end up as a legal issue.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Law enforcement does not ask an advantage in its struggle with the lawless. It asks only that the scales of justice be balanced. The cause of justice is not served when hardened criminals are allowed to go free through legal technicalities.

We cannot say that we love the rule of law and reject arguments that appeal to the rule of law as technicalities and hair splitting.

I am a pro-law judge.

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to 'discover' a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

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.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

Obviously, I'll keep fighting to uphold the Constitution.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

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

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.