Prosecuting Quotes:

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

- Luther Burbank

topic: Law, Judging, Environmental, Jury, Judge And Jury

I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

- Susana Martinez

source: RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

topic: Children, School, Kids, Prosecutor, Prosecuting

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

- Jim Garrison

topic: Morning, Sleep, Night, Prosecuting, Innocent Man

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

- Barack Obama

topic: Marijuana, Justice, Use, Raiding, Prosecuting

Cannabis never killed anybody and it's use is widespread. You can"t stop it. The law defeats itself because all the efforts to stop drugs coming in only drives up the prices and then gangsters move in to push the drugs. If they legalised there wouldn't be gangsters and huge profits...The police are gradually decriminalising the possession of cannabis because they realise there's not much point prosecuting

- James Pickles

topic: Moving, Marijuana, Law, Prosecuting

Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Marijuana, Should, Congress, Marijuana Legalization, Marijuana Prohibition

I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official "global warming" storyline but also the connections between these instances, and the overall scheme of deception that the individual artifices appear calculated to reinforce.

- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

source: "Making the police state work for you" by Christopher Monckton, www.climatedepot.com. December 15, 2011.

topic: Deception, Together, Connections, Memorandum, Artifice

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.776, Library of America

topic: Expectations, Done, Assassins, Respite, Prosecuting

[People] look at [Donald Trump] not prosecuting Hillary [Clinton] as maybe, uh-oh.

- Rush Limbaugh

topic: People, Looks, Clinton, Prosecuting

You look forward. You don't go punitive. It's very small-minded to do that. There's campaign rhetoric, and then there's stuff that you actually do," and you're thinking, Snerdley, "He was never gonna prosecute her, just like they didn't prosecute [Richard] Nixon. If anybody was ever gonna prosecute anybody, it would be the Democrats prosecuting Nixon."

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Thinking, Would Be, Campaigns, Prosecuting

Let's not forget something on this prosecuting Hillary [Clinton] business. It's not just [Donald] Trump supporters. Bernie Sanders supporters are gonna be among those who are not happy to hear this.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Forget, Not Happy, Clinton, Prosecuting

[Donald Trump] says that he doesn't want to hurt the Clintons. He's now saying he might not pursue prosecuting Hillary 'cause he doesn't want to hurt the Clintons.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Hurt, Want, Might, Prosecuting

[Donald] Trump is going to look into the notion of prosecuting Hillary [Clinton]. CNN has a graphic up , "Trump: Some human activity linked to climate change."

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Cnn, Climate, Looks, Prosecuting

"Some human activity linked to climate change." That bothers me much more than whether or not we're gonna be prosecuting Hillary [Clinton].

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Climate, Clinton, Bother, Prosecuting

I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.

- Iggy Pop

source: "BBC Music John Peel Lecture - Iggy Pop's Keynote Speech Transcript". www.bbc.co.uk. 2014.

topic: Kids, College, Thinking, Prosecuting, Tesco

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

- Nancy Grace

topic: Violent, Wells, Courtroom, Felony, Prosecuting

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

- Denis Kearney

topic: Book, Law, Cities, City Hall, Police Force

Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

- F. Lee Bailey

source: New York Times, September 20, 1970.

topic: Thinking, Your Side, People, Nothing But The Truth, Prosecuting

Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.

- Malcolm Turnbull

topic: Party, Thinking, Views, Different Views, Prosecuting

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

- Robert Mueller

topic: Squad, Police, Working Together, Fbi Agents, Homicide

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

- Solomon Ortiz

topic: Military, War, Iraq, Prosecuting, Military Family

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.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

topic: Two, Community, Assistants, Bronx, Prosecuting

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

- Leigh Steinberg

topic: Athlete, Years, Chance, Pro Athlete, Prosecuting

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

topic: Hate, Religion, Church, Sheriffs, Prosecuting

The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.

- Josh Charles

topic: Fighting, Law, Ideas, Manpower, San Diego

Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

- William F. Buckley, Jr.

source: William F. Buckley Jr.'s Address to the New York Bar Association, www.nationalreview.com. July 28, 2014.

topic: Jail, Space, Drug, Detaining, Prosecuting

Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... 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.

- George W. Bush

topic: Law, Government, Community, Affront, Prosecuting

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.47

topic: Party, Facts, Printing, Printer, Prosecuting

The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary.

- Robert H. Jackson

topic: Independent, Judging, Despair, Prosecuting