Ken Starr Quotes

#1. If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

Hillary Clinton

#2. The masks had been made in Korea, delivering back to the West the faces they had given the rest of the globe: presidents, screen stars, and mass murderers. The rubber filament inevitably snapped from the staple after five minutes. The graft wouldn't take.

Colson Whitehead

#3. I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

Ken Starr

#4. I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

Ken Starr

#5. I think the President inspires tremendous affection and loyalty by a wide range of people.

Ken Starr

#6. There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Ken Starr

#7. The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. Rights are in the power of the people.

Ken Starr

#9. I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I see in his eyes, his head, he's hopeless - and I'm just deliberately hitting. I don't do that.

Muhammad Ali

#10. Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

Ken Starr

#11. I get lost in ifs. They are always there if if if if and I should only be able to tune in to them if I'm on the right
frequency. But that's the thing about me: The frequencies don't divide.

David Levithan

#12. Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

Ken Starr

#13. We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews.

Ken Starr

#14. The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

Ken Starr

#15. I was privileged to serve as a judge.

Ken Starr

#16. In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Ken Starr

#17. After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

Ken Starr

#18. I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

Ken Starr

#19. Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Ken Starr

#20. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

Shawn Achor

#21. In contrast to what most prosecutors do, we try to treat all individuals with complete fairness. We do not go out and hold press conferences and the like.

Ken Starr

#22. I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.

Ken Starr

#23. You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.

Ken Starr

#24. Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

Ken Starr

#25. We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

Ken Starr

#26. As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

Ken Starr

#27. When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

Ken Starr

#28. Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

Ken Starr

#29. Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Ken Starr

#30. I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Ken Starr

#31. The values of confidentiality of matters occurring before the grand jury is very important.

Ken Starr

#32. I am not here to accuse the media of anything.

Ken Starr

#33. We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.

Ken Starr

#34. until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast.

Neil Gaiman

#35. Odette seemed a fascinating and desirable woman, the attraction which her body held for him had aroused a painful longing to secure the absolute mastery of even the tiniest particles of her heart.

Marcel Proust

#36. If he gives you the grace to make you believe, he will give you the grace to live a holy life afterward." (Sermon, "Justification by Grace")

Charles Haddon Spurgeon