Leon Panetta Quotes

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

There is an international law just as there has always been a law against theft, but because the thief gets away with his booty at times is no reason why we should say that the law against theft has been abrogated.

As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.

I gathered, in the investigation I made as Chairman of the Committee of the American Law Institute, statistics from a majority of the States and I have carefully examined those gathered by other committees and commissions, and it is my judgment that of those committing major crimes … not one out of every ten is apprehended and adequately punished … that our system of apprehending and prosecuting those who commit major crimes is only from 10 per cent to 15 per cent efficient; that as to those apprehended and indicted for major offenses, it is only from 25 per cent to 30 per cent efficient … and that as to those actually tried for major offenses, it is not over 50 per cent efficient.

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

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

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact.

You only have to worry about going to jail if you break the law. That's pretty simple.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

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

Those who perpetrate fraud against our financial institutions will be met with the full force of law enforcement.

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.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

Justice can help reduce sexual violence: bringing to justice those soldiers responsible for sexual violence discourages other soldiers from committing such crimes.

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army.

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 thing that is wrong with the Uniform Code of Military Justice is that it is not uniformly applied

Within the realm of the law, we have to be as severe as we can. We will not simply give capital punishment to all criminals, but those who deserve it will get it.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

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

If it was up to me, frankly I would be hanging some of the gang leaders from our street lamps.