Edwin Meese Quotes

Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

A written constitution guides and directs the application of law in a way utterly unlike oral guidance. It reminds us that the certainty and consistency of legal application is essential.