Judge Mills Lane Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Judge Mills Lane:

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.
~Judge Mills Lane


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I think most folks are good folks.
~Judge Mills Lane


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The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.
~Judge Mills Lane


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Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve to get their butts chewed. Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back. What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment, and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#519ed511

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#3eff8b4a

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#e0897378

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#89db0246

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#6d17fe60

I think, unfortunately, some people are just bad, they're just born bad, and I don't know why.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#d3c7efca

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#1a9c3dd4

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#7917f65c

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#3ef7b581

I have great faith in the jury system.
~Judge Mills Lane


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/judge-mills-lane-quotes/#057d9781

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