Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

It is better to destroy 100 innocent people than to let one guilty one escape.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

Of course, a secret is no good if it doesn't need to be a secret.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

I haven't been part of the criminal world.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

I think, I would guess most people keep secrets.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

I don't have anything to hide.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.