Keir Starmer Quotes

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.

I am in the public eye, and I accept that my actions may be open to question.

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.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

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

Trial by television is ... foreign to our system.