"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
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"Congress: America's only true criminal class."
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"I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions."
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"The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power."
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress."
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"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."
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"In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity."
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"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."
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"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren"
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"Every society has the criminals it deserves."
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"The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."
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"I penetrate the hearts of good kids and criminals"
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"Radium could be very dangerous in criminal hands."
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"The criminal ineptitude makes you furious."
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"My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this."
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"It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness."
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"Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers."
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"The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
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"Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right."
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"I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten."
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