Amy Klobuchar Quotes

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

We’re not here to secure convictions; we are here to secure justice.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

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 believe myself to have been a reasonable prosecutor, and when the facts and evidence show a criminal violation has been committed, the individuals involved should not dictate whether the case is prosecuted.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

The prosecution has an ethical duty to ensure not just that they get a conviction when the defendant is guilty, but also to ensure that they get it by means of fair trial, and that means a fair trial for the defense as well as the prosecution.

You approach the cases, not thinking that you have some obligation to win but that you actually have to evaluate the facts and make sure that you're doing the right thing.

You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.