Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felix Frankfurter

Ours is an accusational and not an inquisitorial system - a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charge against an accused out of his own mouth

Edward Gibbon

Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest

Keith Olbermann

Speaking from Russia, Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that an American named Jose Padilla is under arrest, accused of plotting a radiation bomb attack in this country. In fact, Padilla had, by this time, already been detained for more than one month. Number three. February 5, 2003. Secretary of State Powell tells the United Nations Security Council of Iraq's concealment of weapons, including 18 mobile biological weapons laboratories, justifying a U.N. or U.S. first strike. Many in the U.N. are doubtful. Months later, much of the information proves untrue. February 7, 2003. Two days later, as anti-war demonstrations continue to take place around the globe:

Chris Stein

Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.

There's a lot of people accused of cheating who are not, and this kit can prove that. However, there's a flip side to that coin.

Jackie Wilson

A lot of people have accused Elvis of stealing the black man's music, when in fact, almost every black solo entertainer copied his stage mannerisms from Elvis.

Sam Houston

A manufacture of bologna sausage accused a man whom he had discharged of spreading a report that the manufacturer's sausage was made of dog meat.The accused man protested: I never said any such thing, but I will tell you what I did say. I said that w

Alan Colmes

Also, interestingly enough, some of the things he was accused of believing ...actually were not his personal beliefs but what he instituted as a government employee - some of the same arguments are now being suggested will be used by Judge Roberts in his confirmation hearings.

Will Champion

A lot of times when we play in countries where English isn't the first language we get accused of being melancholy and miserable.

This could have a chilling effect on the willingness of competent lawyers to vigorously defend the accused and that could have a fatal effect on the fairness and effectiveness of the trial.

This is about a private-property right and an unfair, narrow tax with a phony 'fee' label, ... We've been accused before of being in the pocket of the tobacco companies, from people who question your motives before they pay any attention to the argument.

It is unconscionable that the accused killer, who was captured by video cameras fatally attacking Scott Williams, has manipulated our legal system to flout the law and evade justice for nine years.

Richard Keen

There is not one single piece of evidence to bear out that libel as far as the second accused is concerned in any respect whatsoever. One wonders how he came to be mentioned in that paragraph.

There's a bias, because of the bubble-popping, to be negative no matter what after we've had a good rally, because you don't want to be accused of being too optimistic.

There must be justice for the accuser as well as for the accused

You're kind of not a major league unless you have a video game. People have accused us of being video game football and now video game football has its own video game.

England were the perfect model of a rugby team during that time, ... They were accused of being stodgy but in fact they could play any style of game and they would only take out on to the field whatever game they needed on the day.

Dusty Baker

Baseball's not separate from the world. (Racism) is real. Nobody wants to talk about it. You don't hear guys talk in depth too much, especially minority guys, because you get accused of playing the race card.

concerned over the lack of due process in military trials of civilians accused of terrorism in Peru.

Tibor Fischer

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and unimaginative; if you choose the unfamous, you're labelled willful and perverse.

Abhishek Bachchan

There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.

Bob started getting paranoid and didn't trust anybody. The day he accused me of calling the attorney general's office, he got right in my face. I didn't know if we were going to get physical or what.

BoP can't control how the justice department handles the case against the accused killer of Scott Williams or when the judicial system will move the case forward. But BoP can control how it honors the memory of Scott Williams and protects staff and our communities from potential future violence.

Paul Broun

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

We all know that the possible accused all are aging, so we really have to start the process as soon as we can.

It would be wrong for us to say this case is over, but I think there is a victory from the perspective that it is important for rape survivors to hear what the accused has to say.

They all said, 'I can't point out where they were at the time, or where I was, but trust me, it happened then. But had they ever seen the accused before? Never.

Christiane Amanpour

They accused you of being in the KLA?

They accused me of stirring up animosity. You know I write about the 16th century! I write about tribes that were fighting against each other in the 16th century. And they take all of that and they project it onto the present day.

They accused me of anything, anything at all, but they had no evidence.

The Secret History of Italian Cinema. I was accused by a lot of Italian critics of having lost any sense of the institutions by opening the gates of the festival to trash cinema.

Shami Chakrabarti

The thought of secret hearings where once again the accused will never hear the case against them fills me with dread.

Mariella Frostrup

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.