Claire McCaskill Quotes

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

I've become very fond of the law. I've always been an advocate for justice, which occasionally the law brings to light.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

Delay in justice is injustice.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

Enforcing the law is not an injustice.

No person should suffer … without being brought to answer by due course and process of law

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it.

We all require equal access to the justice system.

I simply apply the law fairly and equally to all our citizens.

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair trial. And that fair trial needs to have an impartial jury.

I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.