Criminal Trials Quotes

#1. Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame.

Matt Taibbi

#2. When Richard M. Nixon resigned and Ford became the 38th president of the United States, the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office, of which I was a member, was preparing for the criminal trials of Nixon's top aides - H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#3. It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. Problem Identification and General Needs and Targeted Needs Assessments. The problem identification and general needs assessment for a curriculum

Patricia A. Thomas

#5. I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

Billy Idol

#6. Trial by jury in civil causes, ... trial by jury in criminal causes, [and] the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus ... all stand on the same footing; they are the common rights of Americans.

Richard Henry Lee

#7. Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

Keri Smith

#8. I offer to shake hands with Kyle, but he insists on a high five, something I've never done. I've seen the Dallas Cowboys do it, and it looks like great fun.

Craig Lancaster

#9. We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

Vincent Bugliosi

#10. I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.

Kurt Loder

#11. The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now see "case management" rather than presiding over trials as their primary responsibility. Late

Mark Tushnet

#12. We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

#13. How does fear become so powerful? We can't see it. We can't touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

Gena Showalter

#14. Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

Stephen R. Lawhead

#15. A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

Byron White

#16. A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.

Sue Halpern

#17. The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

Bill W. Clayton

#18. W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#19. Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

Lauren Oliver

#20. There are some things you just don't say...not even in a school!

X

#21. Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.

Stephen Gillers

#22. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Fisher Ames

#23. We have climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from human power and transportation infrastructure. At the same time, we have 2 billion people who live in energy poverty.

Ramez Naam

#24. I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

Dylan Moran

#25. Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Cormac McCarthy