Famous Quotes & Sayings

The district attorney takes very seriously the violation of the public trust. And this prosecution will reflect that.

The district attorney said the officer was in imminent danger, but in the same breath, he said we don't know where he was standing.

a gross violation of the trust of the residents. ... I hope the district attorney will pursue criminal charges in this case.

A good district attorney can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to, and Mr. Earle understands that, ... The accusations harm as much as the convictions. Because all you have right now is accusations, and we're having an interview on a national television show about accusations. So they're obviously harmful or it wouldn't be news.

Rachel Scott

Their attorneys are latching onto an incident that occurred 23 years ago. These children weren't born until a decade after the incident occurred.

All but one of the attorneys who made loans practiced at one time or another before Judge Neal, ... The one exception is a former law partner who did not practice at all in Municipal Court.

Tom DeLay

Any partisan crackpot district attorney who might want to indict a member of our leadership.

As attorney general I feel it is my duty to education our public officials about ethics and anti-corruption laws. I'm sending out an early warning that come Jan. 1, I will rabidly enforce our ethics and anti-corruption laws.

Protecting the environment has been a top priority of the Department of the Attorney General. Those who violate our environmental laws must know that when they are caught, they will pay a very heavy price. That is the only way to deter the type of conduct that took place here. This case is an example of the exceptional cooperation between the State of Hawaii and the EPA, which continues.

Anthony Romero

Rather than focus on this constitutional crisis, Attorney General (Alberto) Gonzales is cracking down on critics of his friend and boss. Our nation is strengthened, not weakened, by those whistle-blowers who are courageous enough to speak out on violations of the law.

probably the Securities and Exchange Commission and the attorney general should have been on top of, but aren't.

Orrin Hatch

Of the 67 attorneys general we have had, only a handful have come close to the qualifications that John Ashcroft possesses, ... He has always been committed to equal justice and opportunity for all.

Normally it wouldn't be a good thing for an attorney general to have a professional defamer as a brother-in-law. But I am so delighted for him. He is a great Canadian success story.

Henry Hyde

A decision whether to hold hearings will be based on the information developed during this review. I am hopeful that the attorney general will cooperate fully by making all necessary documents and personnel available to the committee,

Mary Williams

Nowhere did Congress say that they wanted to make that kind of transformation of power from the states regulating medical practice to the U.S. Attorney General regulating medical practice,

Defense attorneys fear a jury will be overly sympathetic when they hear the details surrounding the death of this small and harmless animal.

There's been no discussions. Unfortunately, I need to get attorneys involved now.

There's a perception that the attorney general's office is just for Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

As you know, I serve on a number of boards, which has caused the city attorney some concern. I think it would be in the best interest of the city for me not to challenge his position.

They say that's for the processing fees of the money you've won. You take this check, cash it and send the money to the attorney who is supposed to be handling this.

A lot of it kind of went over my head. But I know our attorneys are doing their job and their best and I think we will prevail in the end.

Allan Lichtman

A lot of Richard Nixon's very dangerous and un-democratic tendencies were reinforced by the sounding board of his top aides, including people who went to jail, like his attorney general, John Mitchell, his top domestic aides, Erlichman and Haldeman.

They made me get this house which I can't afford. And now they've threatened to refer me to the prosecuting attorney if I don't pay them. But if I pay them, I won't have enough money for rent.

This issue - whether to put them on trial again, and on the basis of what law ... is currently in the hands of the attorney general.

It's all very positive news. It supports the findings that our outside attorney found.

Richard Blumenthal

I told them I was the attorney general...and they were going to take the rest of the day off,

It's not infrequent for local district attorneys to take the lead on fraud investigations. Obviously, that kind of a unit is closer to the community and closer to the problem.

Jonathan Turley

for Ashcroft to serve as attorney general and to protect the right to choose despite his own personal views in opposition.

There were times when the investigators felt that interviews and the focus of interviews should move quicker than the attorneys who were managing the inquiry or the grand jury otherwise decided. And that was the source of some frustration at different points,

There must be a great deal of pressure on police departments and district attorneys to file these cases in the first place. . . . sometimes, as in this case, there is a rush to judgment.

Your job as a prosecutor is to get a conviction, just as your job as a defense attorney is to get an acquittal,

You're going to look to see who the district attorney and police have talked to and you're going to talk to them yourself. The idea here is you don't want to rely on the work that's already been done by the government, you want to do it yourself.

Jerry Brown

You need the experience, you need the broad range of understanding that the complexity and the power of the Attorney General's Office truly requires.