Indict Quotes

#1. Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Chuck Robb

#2. No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

Jonny Greenwood

#3. My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.

Chinua Achebe

#4. That D.C. grand jury investigation of Abramoff can't go on forever. Eventually the lawyers at the Public Integrity Section will go to their bosses with some decisions about just who they want to indict. That's when Al Gonzales will have to show his cards.

Joshua Micah Marshall

#5. Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Robin Williams

#6. Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.

Todd Solondz

#7. When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

C. Terry Warner

#8. Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.

Letty Aronson

#9. I am not a hero.

Chen Guangcheng

#10. To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Denis Diderot

#11. If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.

Jackie French

#12. Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Mary Frances Berry

#13. We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

Barack Obama

#14. To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John F. Kennedy

#15. Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming.

Rudy Giuliani

#16. So the fact that the grand jury would come back and make the decision not to indict the jailers and not make a decision on Officer Encinia, it makes us feel as though there's not going to be a positive outcome for us in that regard.

Sharon Cooper

#17. The costumes aren't costumes they're uniforms. Uniforms mean something. At least to me. And while we wear them we represent something bigger. Something that symbolizes. We stand up.

- Captain America

Brian Michael Bendis

#18. I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

Fareed Zakaria

#19. The prophets Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, for example, often used the metaphors of adultery and prostitution to indict those they accused of being "unfaithful" to God's covenant.

Elaine Pagels

#20. Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.

James Surowiecki

#21. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

David Mamet

#22. Federal prosecutors want to indict Julian Assange for making public a great many classified documents.

Barton Gellman

#23. There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

George F. Will

#24. Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

Eric Hoffer

#25. Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Chinua Achebe

#26. A grand jury would 'indict a ham sandwich,' if that's what you wanted.

Sol Wachtler

#27. Still in one piece?" Vincent teased, pulling me close & planting a soft kiss on my lips. "After dirty-dancing with Jules, I'm not sure.

Amy Plum

#28. The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them,

Larry Wilmore