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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

I think that the effort to continue to look for some law to somehow make violence go away is missing the point.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.