“I am a prosecutor, I have a specific mandate from the Security Council, I am not involved in politics and my task is to bring Milosevic to trial in The Hague.”
Carla del Ponte
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.”
William Orville Douglas
“It's not a good sign when what a prosecutor does, in the three days before his grand jury expires, is to create a Web site and announces the vehicle to announce something. I think people better be ready for charges, ... FOX News Sunday.”
Abbe Lowell
“We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.”
Melina Kennedy
“In some instances, local prosecutors and investigators do not have the resources to proceed and it is a difficult process trying to make sure there is funding. In other instances there's an unwillingness to proceed,”
Janet Reno
“What was described was not in my opinion expressing prosecution as the primary role of a prosecutor. Everyone has a role to play in the community, everyone has a lead role, and I would think our funding would be dictated by that.”
Thomas Stith
“I don't want any political interference in criminal investigations by prosecutors.”
Frank Hsieh
