Quotes about Legal Obstruction

Leonard Peltier

The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.

Neal Katyal

Obstruction of justice requires a corrupt intent.

John Naisbitt

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Neal Katyal

I don't think the fact that something occurs in public or in private matters at all to obstruction of justice. I mean, if I publicly threaten the prosecutor who's investigating me, I don't think it'd be a particularly compelling defense to say, 'Oh, I did it in public.'

Donald Rumsfeld

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Randi Weingarten

The reason they were designated as targets was to keep them from the witness stand and us. Is it just a coincidence that four years later they haven't been indicted

Andrew Jackson

It is my painful duty to state that in one quarter of the United States opposition to the revenue laws has arisen to a height which threatens to thwart their execution, if not to endanger the integrity of the Union. Whatever obstructions may be thrown in the way of the judicial authorities of the General Government, it is hoped they will be able peaceably to overcome them by the prudence of their own officers and the patriotism of the people.

The revenue laws he referred to were tariff duties on foreign imports that were instituted to protect fledgling American domestic manufacturers. The problem was that at the same time as it helped the manufacturers, it caused everyone to pay higher prices. Worse, it destroyed the business of the importers, and the retail merchants who specialized in fine European imports. It also hurt the shipping business so owners and sailors alike were damaged. Maritime and importing states were outraged and if enough people did not support the tariffs, smuggling would increase. Polarization and controversy were rife at the time. Unlike today conservatives tended to be for the protectionist tariffs and the left wing tended to be for free trade. Jackson insisted that the law be obeyed, but he wanted Congress to pay attention to the damaged forces.

Neal Katyal

Firing the prosecutor who's about to get you or your campaign is kind of quintessential obstruction of justice.

Scott Adams

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

H. L. Mencken

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Jay Chandrasekhar

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

Legal Obstruction Quotes