Dana Boente Quotes

As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the laws that protect our people from harm. But another fundamental part of my job is to seek to advance the basic American principle of equal justice under law.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

When those who uphold the law are strong, the state is strong. When they are weak, the state is weak

...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

We need law and order in America.

When we uphold the rule of law, our counterterrorism tools are more likely to withstand the scrutiny of our courts, our allies, and the American people.

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.

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

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

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.

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.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S., and that's the way it's done in Russia.

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

Preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.

In many parts of Italy the only revolutionary factor would be the full application of the rule of law.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.