Prosecution Quotes

It is better to destroy 100 innocent people than to let one guilty one escape.

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

Due process does not require that every conceivable step be taken, at whatever cost, to eliminate the possibility of convicting an innocent person. To conclude otherwise would all but paralyze our system for enforcement of the criminal law.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

When I was director of public prosecutions, from 2008 to 2013, I had a first-rate counter-terrorism team, who worked closely with the police and the security and intelligence services to defeat and disrupt terrorism.

All the power of the government will be directed towards the Rockefeller Trust.

I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture … and we are leading this fight by example.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

When I left the San Francisco DA's office, I went down to the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and I was able to try a tremendous amount - very serious cases and working in gang neighborhoods, impoverished neighborhoods - really make a difference and be impactful in those communities.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

In the physical world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a wanted man.

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.

Being the DA was, without a doubt, the best job in the world. I loved knowing that people would get their justice.

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.