Jane Mayer Quotes

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, a former associate attorney general. If I had done that, I'd have been prosecuted. It's a clear violation of 18 United States Code Section 791.What [Hillary Clinton] did were criminal acts. She has displayed the facts.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

An essential function of the Court is to revise incorrect or outdated prior rulings. Over the last century, the Court has overruled itself about twice a year—roughly the same rate at which the Court has overturned acts of Congress.

To be in America illegally is actually a civil offense and not a criminal one.

These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Is everything right because the law allows it?

If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that violation, so if they're violating the law, I guess you can call them criminals. We call everybody else criminals that violate the law.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

History is no criminal court

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Is it against the law for me to know it?

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

The FBI had a right to review that. And they did and they found Hillary Clinton not in any criminal violation.

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

The Constitution deals with substance, not shadows.

Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.