Top 186 Prosecutor Quotes & Sayings

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

There's nothing scarier than a reckless prosecutor.

Sadly, as a seasoned prosecutor, I know what dark acts people are capable of.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

As a former prosecutor, I never presented a case in front of the grand jury that didn't result in an indictment. Bottom line: If a prosecutor wants to indict a case, the case gets indicted.

I've never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim.

That's who I was: a prosecutor. I really loved it.

Before I was a prosecutor, I was a defense attorney. I took a cut in pay because I wanted to stand up for the victims.

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

I was a prosecutor for 20 years.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.

What I do know, as a former federal prosecutor, is, it does appear that there were crimes committed during the Obama administration.

During the 10 years I worked as a prosecutor, I always struggled with what to do with someone who was clearly mentally ill and committed a horrific crime.

I worked as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

I have voted for police funding in part because of my own experience as a prosecutor.

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist outcry against Orhan Pamuk's remarks about Turkey's need to confront its past, I'm not surprised that one public prosecutor in an Istanbul borough should have decided to act. I don't expect the proceedings to lead to a conviction. But in any case one mustn't generalize and say that's the way Turkey behaves; it's the way one nationalist public prosecutor behaves.

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.

Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.

Independence sounds good in theory, but in practice, it is mutually exclusive with accountability. The more independence you give a prosecutor, the less you make that prosecutor accountable to the public and regular checks and balances.

As a former prosecutor, I will always be on the side of the law and not any particular constituency.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

Honestly, I have heard a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor.

As a prosecutor, I served victims; I fought to keep communities safe, and in every instance, I knew that it was my job to protect individuals' privacy.

I am a strong woman. I come from a background as a prosecutor.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and as a judge, I put people in jail for extended periods of time when that was appropriate.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Firing the prosecutor who's about to get you or your campaign is kind of quintessential obstruction of justice.

I love doing bank robberies, drug cases, homicides - as a prosecutor, that's what I thought I was going to be overseeing when I got to the bureau.

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

When I went to the prosecutor's office, I wanted to be one of the good guys that the defense could trust. I'd try fair, clean cases, pull no punches, no below-the-belt stuff. Honorable. Because that's the kind of prosecutor I wanted to deal with.

If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.

Based on my experience as a prosecutor in Miami, illegal immigration is one of the most critical issues facing this country. As a prosecutor, I felt the burden of it. I think what's important... is for the state and the federal government and for local governments to work together to do everything possible to control illegal immigration in a comprehensive way.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

As a border prosecutor, I've put criminals behind bars who worked for some of the most violent cartels in the world.

The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes.

I was a journalism major in college, went to law school, and became a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. I loved it and was with the Department of Justice for years.

I remember, as a federal prosecutor myself, it's only a 3-year appointment, and they interviewed my childhood neighbors.

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

I was a federal prosecutor when we exercised powers under the Patriot Act or under the FISA court.

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

I'm not a prosecutor at home. I don't talk about my day, because nobody's interested. I might do something frivolous, like bead.

A prosecutor's job is to file the evidence wherever it takes us.

I didn't understand why people cared about my hair or my makeup or my clothing. It was like, 'I'm a prosecutor. I'm not a model. I'm not an actress.'