Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

Criminals know that if they stay under certain thresholds, nobody is going to come after them.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

I could not see the speedometer, and was not accustomed to travelling in an open vehicle, but I estimated that we were consistently exceeding the speed limit. Discordant sound, wind, risk of death—I tried to assume the mental state that I used at the dentist.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

The movie business is based on criminals. Some of them are in movies and some of them make movies.

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.

The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it's all headed in the same direction.

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

Of course we're Criminals

While I live, every criminal must die.

The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.