Edwin Meese Quotes

• 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

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, October 14, 1985.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Edwin Meese

  White, House, Doubt

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• Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

  Edwin Meese

  Government, Branches, Court

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• 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

  "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.

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• 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, Thursday

  "Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics" by Meese & Blackwell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 29, 2014.

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• A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

  Edwin Meese

  Government, Law, Land

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• [Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

  Edwin Meese

  War, Nuclear, May

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• 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

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• The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

  Edwin Meese

  Ideas, Decision, Police

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• I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

  Edwin Meese

  College, Names, Pieces

  "Da Ali G Show (Law)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 21, 2003.

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• 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

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

  Edwin Meese

  Country, Nicaragua, Clubs

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