William Barr Quotes

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

The American people must be able to trust that their courts and law enforcement will uphold, protect, and defend their constitutional rights.

Can I suggest that the sheriff and the district attorney, in the lunch break, go out and read the Constitution.

I have long believed that there is no finer group than those who serve in the Department of Justice.

The Attorney General is not above the law.

My attorney general will restore the integrity of the Department of Justice which has been severely questioned.

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

I well understand that the role of Attorney General is to enforce the law as it is, not as I would have it.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.

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

The responsibility of the Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is to determine whether crimes have been committed and to prosecute those crimes under the principles of federal prosecution.

The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

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.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

You have a good judicial system in the U.S., as you have learned from the Nixon-Watergate period.

Doing a thing by law, or according to law, is only carrying the law into execution. And punishing a man by, or according to, the sentence or judgment of his peers, is only carrying that sentence or judgment into execution.

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

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