When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
Decisions on a matter as serious as charging an individual with a crime cannot be decided on anything less than complete examination of all available evidence. Anything less is not justice.
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own.
You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.
There must not be favoured treatment for those occupying a position of public responsibility.
No one can just file a charge and go directly to a jury trial. That just cannot happen.
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.
It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
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