Quotes of: Criminal-justice-system Keyword

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

Kamala Harris

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Kelly Ayotte

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Ben Whishaw

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Steve Earle

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Henry Louis Gates

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Ernest Istook

Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety.

Jan C. Ting

The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

Susana Martinez

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

Michael Connelly

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

Sam Sheppard

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and ...

Eliot Spitzer

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Karl Kraus

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the federal criminal justice system. I made an announcement in August of that year in San Francisco, when we rolled out the Smart o...

Eric Holder

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Kamala Harris

I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system.

Paul Broun

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

Robert P. McCulloch

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

Kamala Harris

I co-sponsored the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act to improve access to mental health services for people in the criminal justice system. This bill would give law enforcement officers the tools they need to identify and respond to mental ...

Roy Blunt