Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saddam Hussein

Where is the crime? Where is the crime? If trying a suspect accused of shooting at a head of state -- no matter what his name is -- is considered a crime, then you have the head of state in your hands. Try him.

Richard Keen

Was the second accused aware that there was an intention to use an explosive device for the destruction of a civil aircraft and the murder of its occupants?

Tom Daschle

When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,

Kenneth Fisher

I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

Thomas Sowell

With various people complaining about "price gouging... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.

Ron Gardenhire

We know how much this means to the White Sox and what kind of race they're in. So we just want to compete as hard as we can and make sure we don't get accused by anybody of laying down.

Kevin Mitnick

Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.

Patrick Cotter

We're not conceding anything at this point. He probably feels the way anybody would who is accused of terrible things and thrown in a jail cell.

Thomas Steinbeck

I started writing serious books so late because I knew I'd be accused of riding on my father's coattails.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

Sophocles

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Jeffrey Toobin

One of the toughest issues here is how much you disclose about the character and history of the accuser in the Bryant case. At some level, it's relevant to her credibility, which is an important issue in the case. But there are also boundaries of fairness and good taste that need to be considered.

John Fitzpatrick

From the defense standpoint, I think that's some crucial information that really can be used to bolster their claim that the accuser has a less-than-honorable motive in bringing the charges. As a defense lawyer, that's something I would want to investigate completely to see if she's crying wolf. If she's crying wolf in 1996, then potentially she could be crying wolf in 2006.

Rodney Melville

credibility of the accuser is central to the case.

Khanderao Kand

It's like appointing the accuser as the prosecutor, judge and jury.

Bob Ekstrand

The clear gist of what they were looking for was to find out who was at the party and who wasn't. That's really odd, given that the accuser claims to have identified two people. The accuser maybe picked someone out of a photo lineup who wasn't even in this state at the time. ... All they've got is an ID. If this woman fingered someone who was flying over the state of New York when this party was in progress, how embarrassing would that be?

Chuck Sherwood

This has upset a lot of people's lives, and it will continue to do so. This is a bad thing, one way or another, whether the players are telling a lie or the accuser is telling a lie. This has turned everything upside down.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

Linda Patterson

We want to see justice served for what was done.

Chris Christie

She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

Chris Christie

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chinua Achebe

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

David Ruggles

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Bryan Stevenson

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.