Judicial System Quotes

• True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Rights, Law, Justice

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• JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

  Catherine Bell

  Military, Judging, Acronyms

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When your child has matured sufficiently to understand how the judicial system works, set a bedtime for him and then send him to bed an hour early. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the rules, explain that you made the rules and you can interpret them in any way that seems appropriate to you, according to changing conditions. This will prepare him for the Supreme Court's concept of the US Constitution as a 'living document'.

  Joseph Sobran

  Children, Way, Bed

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• The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

  Irving Kaufman

  Finding The One, History, Machines

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• The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Fundamentals, Problem, Credibility

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• The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

  Sonny Landham

  Kentucky, Needs, Building

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• Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.

  John Ensign

  Justice, Goal, Today

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• An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

  DMX

  Presumption Of Innocence, Important, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.

  James Toback

  Mistake, Ideas, Needs

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2009.

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• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  Randy Quaid

  Running, Santa Barbara, Wind

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• A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Women, Views, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.6835, Delphi Classics

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• Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.

  Benjamin Carson

  Germany, Way, Nazi

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• As De Tocqueville said, sooner or later in the United States, every controversy ends up in court. I think that's a great - says great things about our judicial system.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, United States, Ends

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• I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Past, Thinking, Fire

  "Frontline (Death by Fire)". TV Series, www.pbs.org. October 19, 2010.

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• That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

  Andrew Thomas

  Outcomes, Individual, Cases

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• I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Independent, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn't been on the bench and, therefore, there's not a lot of opinions for people to look at.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, People, Important

  George W. Bush's Press Conference, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 4, 2005.

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• If some people keep saying that the press is still not free in Turkey, then I would like to say this: there has been a coup attempt in Turkey. And there are people siding with the coup plotters. And there are - there is also media outlets that have been against - that are against the coup attempt. So my question is that against the media that supported the coup, will the Turkish justice, judicial system, not take any steps? Of course it will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Turkeys, Media, Justice

  Source: perspectivebd.com

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• Convergence of technology and the judicial system is the need-of-the-hour. We need to go digital and adopt online analysis of legal cases. Dissemination of legal knowledge to the common man will also a go a long way in improving the law and order situation in the country.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Technology, Men

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• There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Rights, Government, Iran

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails.

  Rory Carroll

  Jail, Crime, Court

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

  Rory Carroll

  Venezuela, Corruption, Cocaine

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system is very flawed.

  Sam Rockwell

  America, People, Prison

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• The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.

  Phil Robertson

  Life, Country, Book

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• General welfare is a general condition - maybe sound currency is general welfare, maybe markets, maybe judicial system, maybe a national defense, but this is specific welfare. This justifies the whole welfare state - the military industrial complex, the welfare to foreigners, the welfare state that imprisons our people and impoverishes our people and gives us our recession.

  Ron Paul

  Military, People, Giving

  "Mike Huckabee Explains 2012 Decision; Rep. Ron Paul on His Presidential Bid; Sens. Durbin, Kyl Talk Immigration Reform, Debt Ceiling". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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