Prosecutor Quotes

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.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

At the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, I worked as an Outreach and Re-entry Coordinator and an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I have seen the best of our law enforcement community and the commitment that they have made to the public's safety. But I've also seen too many examples of where our system falls desperately short.

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.

I spent five years prosecuting some of the most dangerous terrorists in this country, so it would be quite difficult for people to pin the charge of being soft on terrorism on me.

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.

Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

As a former federal prosecutor, I welcome the opportunity to hold Hillary Rodham Clinton accountable for her performance and her character.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

It is the honor of a lifetime to serve as Director. I long ago grew to know and admire the FBI from my earliest days as a line prosecutor to my years as assistant attorney general.

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time.

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

I'm a former federal prosecutor, I've fought terrorists and won and when we get back in the White House we will fight terrorists and win again and America will be safe.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.