Edwin Meese famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
-- Edwin Meese

#White #House #Doubt
U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be innocent, have such protection? Meese: Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
-- Edwin Meese

#People #Giving #Police
Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's something even worse than name-calling: legal interference from Washington with valid laws.
-- Edwin Meese

#Integrity #Law #Names
That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it, despite claims to the contrary by Mr. Holder and his allies. As more states adopt such laws, the left has railed against them with increasing fury, even invoking the specter of the Jim Crow era to describe electoral safeguards common to most nations, including in the Third World.
-- Edwin Meese

#Law #Voting #Crow
As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.
-- Edwin Meese

#Integrity #Ohio #Law
Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.
-- Edwin Meese

#Justice #Innovation #Legacy
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
-- Edwin Meese

#Innocent #Crime #Contradictory
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
-- Edwin Meese

#Decision #Judgment #Accepting
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
-- Edwin Meese

#Home #Responsibility #Giving
Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.
-- Edwin Meese

#Country #Nicaragua #Clubs
I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.
-- Edwin Meese

#College #Names #Pieces

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