Matt Gaetz Quotes

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.

I would never impose my own personal convictions upon the law.

The rule of law doesn't mean the police are in charge, but that we all answer to the same laws.

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

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.

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.

I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity section. This department under me will not have any kind of political interference. I will not allow political interference in the Justice Department. Those who might attempt to do that will be rebuffed.

You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.

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

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.

It’s a political process to get to be a United States Attorney but after that, politicians have to adopt a hands off approach to the U. S. Attorneys.

Our criminal justice system was designed to be fair and is the fairest system known to man.

We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same; and that such as will administer the law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people.

The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor.

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

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

If you hang them all, you will get the guilty. But that's not the American way of doing things.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.

Federal criminal prosecutions are a direct function of the number of U. S. Attorneys. The more prosecutors that are appointed, the more criminal prosecutions there will be.

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