Hillary Clinton Quotes

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

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

Every time when there is an exoneration, and there have been hundreds of them, and somebody walks out of jail after years, people ask, “how could this happen?” …. State sanctioned killing is just wrong.

The States have always borne primary responsibility for operating the machinery of criminal justice within their borders, and adapting it to their peculiar circumstances.

The state should not be allowed to make repeated attempts to convict an individual.

The government may set decoys to entrap criminals. But it may nor provoke or create a crime, and then punish the criminal, its creature.

Court rules do not cause crime.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

Instead of a government of law we have a government of lawlessness. Against the continuation of such a condition I enter my solemn protest.

The power to investigate and prosecute is the power to destroy.

Any politician who wants to eliminate parole just doesn’t understand law enforcement.

There is no good reason why police, or gaols, or the administration of justice, should be differently managed in one part of the kingdom and in another.

Politics is a sucker’s game …

There is nothing wrong with God, and the flag is good as is the family, but what I resent is that the Republicans use these as a cover for their support of big money.

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

I don't know why we need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

The investigators were repeatedly told not by sensation mongers but by observers of high position and ability, long experience and unquestioned disinterestedness that the courts know that some of the prosecutors are crooked and the prosecutors know that some of the courts are crooked, and both know that some of the police are crooked, and the police are equally well informed as to them. If a policeman or detective who has worked hard and effectively to land a bad criminal in jail sees him get off through improper influences, he will tend to be less zealous in the next prosecution. He will be inclined to take the easiest course and merely try to get a confession without a too nice regard for the means employed.

We have far more plea bargains in our system than we do trials.

I don’t think its right to have a criminal justice system that puts innocent people to death.

We here in America make up 5 percent of the world’s population, but we make up 25 percent of jailed prisoners. We have now over 3000 … Federal crimes.

Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.

Police and prosecutors and the courts have got to talk together.

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.

In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.

Trump will be America's law and order president, and I look forward to working with him as the law and order governor of Virginia.