William H. Pryor Quotes

I would never ever knowingly break the law.

If you are going to stand for the rule of law, if you are going to raise your hand and support the constitution, then you need to follow the law.

I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.

We don't break the law.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

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

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

My job is to enforce the law, without fear or favor.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

Let's get our civic laws right and abide by them.

My job is to take the law as it's given to me and enforce it and implement it faithfully.

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

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.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

No matter who you are or what you intend to do, you should not exceed the boundaries of the rule of law.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

I'm always a little happier if the court stays somewhat in the center.