Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched"

Method Man, Musician

"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal"

Jimmy Breslin, Entertainer

"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade"

Howard Coble, Politician

"There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years. The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong"

George Stephanopoulos, Celebrity

"Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns"

Carl Levin, Politician

"You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem"

Bill McCollum, Politician

"Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done"

Alain Robert, Athlete

"Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Corruption is a cancer that eats away at the foundations of our society, and we must do everything we can to fight it"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized, it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive"

Florynce R. Kennedy, Lawyer

"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty"

Rodrigo Rato, Politician

"Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

"Justice must not only be seen to be done, but has to be seen to be believed"

J. B. Morton, Writer

"Well, that's the - the removal from office and removal of the Ten Commandments were two different issues"

Roy Moore, Judge

"Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation"

Henry Anatole Grunwald, Editor

"Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs"

Gary Miller, Politician

"Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously"

Barbara Deming, Author

"I don't know why you are treating me like this. The Only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie"

Lee Harvey Oswald, Criminal

"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions"

Antonio Villaraigosa, Politician

"A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing"

Thomas Carper, Economist

"We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"Agitate! Agitate! Ought to be the motto of every reformer. Agitation is the opposite of stagnation - the one is life, the other death"

Ernestine L. Rose, Activist

"In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend"

Pauline Hanson, Politician

"Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"

Paulo Freire, Educator

"We spend more on cows than the poor"

Gordon Brown, Politician

"And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor"

John Woolman, Clergyman

"It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?"

Laura Miller, Politician

"We've had public hearings. We've had interim reports, which our statute has encouraged us to provide to the public. We have brought the public along with us, trying to make as much available as possible over time"

Richard Ben-Veniste, Lawyer

"Over the past few years, special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out"

Marty Meehan, Politician

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