Donna Brazile Quotes

Justice is incidental to law and order

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

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

Nothing is so faulty as those laws which correct faults. He who obeys them because they are just obeys a justice which is imaginary and not the essence of law; it is quite self-contained, it is law and nothing more.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

The law is cruel.

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

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

More law, less justice.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

We're going to have a Justice Department that understands what the word justice means.

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

A fixed rule may give rise to occasional deviations from justice; but these amount to nothing more than the price which every member of the community may be called upon to pay for the advantage of an enlightened code. No laws can be framed sufficiently comprehensive to embrace the infinite varieties of human action …

If a law doesn’t produce a just result, then what good is it? …. If you don’t have a just result, then the law doesn’t matter.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.