Janet Reno Quotes

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I represent my community, and I represent my people. And I've got to be honest if something seems questionable.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

Wrong is for other people.

Ethics are more important than laws.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

Business rests squarely on the law of service. It has for its main reliance truth and faith and justice …. It is one of the greatest contributing forces to the moral and spiritual enhancement of the race.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall. Fiat justitia et ruant coeli.

He made you king to do justice and righteousness.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

I cannot flinch from saying such things in public. As a Representative of the People I am duty bound to do so. Justice cries out to me not to dissemble.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

We are not living up to Thomas Jefferson's idea of what a trial by jury means.

Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?

My role is not to cover up for the crimes of others.

If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account.

You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you're doing the right thing.