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• I was raised – professionally – in the Public Integrity Section. I started in 1976, stayed there for 12 years. It was formed after Watergate by then-head of the Criminal Division Dick Thornburgh, who ultimately became Attorney General.

  Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

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

  Kamala Harris

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• I’ve always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I’ve always been touched by the idea of criminality.

  Elizabeth Strout

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• It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

  David Simon

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• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

  Robert F. Kennedy

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• My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

  David Guterson

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• Every time the liberals pass a bill – I don’t care what it involves – they stick criminal sanctions on it. They don’t feel there is any way people are going to keep a law unless they can put them in jail.

  Pat Robertson

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• Are you as much of a criminal if you don’t act when there’s a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in ‘Less Than Zero’ where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

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• Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

  Friedrich Engels

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• Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

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• Letting someone down is not criminal action.

  Patrick McHenry

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• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  Pat Brown

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• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade – and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

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• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  Constance Baker Motley

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• People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

  Shia LaBeouf

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  Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

  Oscar Wilde

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn’t stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

   

  Christine Keeler

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• The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.

  Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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