Judge Mills Lane Quotes

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

"We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender."
- 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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"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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"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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"I think most folks are good folks."
- Judge Mills Lane

"I have great faith in the jury system."
- Judge Mills Lane
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"Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit."
- Judge Mills Lane

"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
(Related: Society, Direction, Help, Judges, Obligation, Right)

"And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you."
- Judge Mills Lane
(Related: People, Hurt)

"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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"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
(Related: People, Compliment, Folk, Now)