Mo Ibrahim Quotes

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

This country does not punish its political enemies. What this country ensures is that no one is above the law.

I want to make one thing clear: I am proud to be a citizen of a country in which a prime minister can be investigated like any other citizen.

I don't want to live in a country where the elites like Hillary Clinton do not live under the same laws as the rest of us. She needs to be held to account.

I just want to believe that, as a citizen in this country, that I have equal protection under the law and that I can have a situation assessed fairly, that people can look at it, and that a court of law can determine what the outcome is.

Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

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.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

There are extremely few places in the world where the citizens believe their political leaders will be punished if they disobey the law.

In America, the Supreme Court and the American people believe no one is above the law.

Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

No one is above the law, not even the President.

Obama can show that America's promise of equality not only means that anyone can reach the highest office in the land - it also means that everyone is equally subject to the law.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.

We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.