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I was a journalist doing my job, protecting my source until my source freed me to perform my civic duty to testify.

Judith Miller

If they testify, and we've been promised that, it is going to be one for the ages.

Michael Wynne

On the basis of this advice of counsel, Mr. Duncan has authorized Sullivan & Cromwell to advise the Committee that he will rely on his constitutional right not to testify at the January 24 hearing. Mr. Duncan will testify on Jan. 24 if the Committee votes to grant him immunity.

Robert Giuffra

This is the kind of human being testifying against these officers.

Harland Braun

The concern is that we shouldn't do mandatory minimums because it ties the hands of prosecutors and you may make some victims testify who don't want to testify.

Rep. Michael Kainen

This is a good faith effort to describe those witnesses we currently believe may be called to testify at trial.

Daniel Petrocelli

The defendants put the whole case on the line when they testify. Once they take the stand, the whole focus changes from the government evidence to whether the jurors can buy the credibility of the defendants.

Mark Zauderer

The other players did not testify before this committee, ... We are asking for these results in the context of Palmeiro's appearance before the Government Reform Committee.

Rob White

I'd be terrified [to let the mayor testify]. He's not a very articulate guy. When he answers questions, he answers in funny ways. He's Mayor Malaprop being asked questions by federal agents who want him to say something wrong so they can get an indictment.

Patrick Cotter

[Morgan said he feels Buckley should not have received another hearing on his sentencing because there was no wrongdoing by himself or the witness. The drug task force agent] did not testify at the re-sentencing, ... Therefore, he doesn't have any grounds for another hearing.

Henry Morgan

I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.

Joseph Tate

We need an order from this court to order the Rwandan Government to allow her to come and testify.

Jonathan Kirk

(The defense) is taking advantage of the fact that the officer that made the stop is dead and can't be here to testify. The only thing Redding did was give his life to keep the citizens of Rocklin safe and it would be so wrong to grant this motion under the circumstances.

Stephanie Macumber

Every student will be required to learn how to be a forensic expert in the courtroom. They will learn how to collect evidence, write a report, submit it to a virtual crime lab, and to testify in court. You can be the greatest investigator in the world, but if you can't explain the evidence in layman's terms, the jury will be lost.

Lamar Jordan

He is calm. He knows he's going to testify and he's going to explain what happened, and he's ready to do it.

Jeff Justice

He offered to testify against himself for the government.

James Fitzgerald

I will answer when we testify.

Charles Simon

She's a very special young lady who had the courage to step up and testify, ... She's the hero in this.

Jason Anderson

We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.

John Agius

There's going to be people testifying on both sides that are going to be extremely passionate.

Rep. David Schultheis

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Rep. Michael Lawlor

They do all of the auditing and testifying of the products and certify they are clean.

Frank Coonelly

Although I would like more than you know to answer the questions that you and your colleagues have about WorldCom, I have been instructed by my counsel not to testify based on my Fifth Amendment constitutional rights.

Bernie Ebbers

We're also cognizant of not creating a situation where we have a potential witness testifying at the trial.

Charles Moose

We had requested a number of intelligence officers be granted immunity so they could come in and testify under oath without fear of reprisal as to what they did.

Guy Womack

I've seen it time and time again, people do not testify against innocent people, they, reluctantly, only testify against guilty people.

Jeff Sessions

I think maybe that was the final straw that made her realize that the Commonwealth was going to be able to prove the case and to act in her best interest was to take some responsibility and be willing to testify against any codefendants.

Attorney Wes Nance

Friends and family allocations of new (stock) issues goes on every day all over the country. Some people think it's fair and some people think it's an abuse, but it happens and there's a lot of gray areas when it comes to these situations. I'm sure the defense had experts prepared to testify that this . . . is a routine part of the modern business world.

Craig Silverman

You know what bothers me more? Whether or not a member of the White House leaked the identity of a CIA agent and now we have Karl Rove who is going to be testifying, it seems, once AGAIN (his emphasis). And is he doing so to cover his posterior? And what do you make of that?

Alan Colmes

It's probably a list of about 50 witnesses, about half of which I expect to testify.

Dan Petrocelli

I'm having ?not welcome' signs made up for the hearing. I hope a lot of people come to testify. Lawmakers listen to noisy constituents.

Delegate David Rudolph

He may be asked to testify in future actions. . . for that, we will have to stay tuned.

Conrad Black

It is a bittersweet experience to, on the one hand, have to testify against a client on the basis of a subpoena. But on the other hand, once you have exhausted your legal options, you are forced to, and will readily comply with, the law.

Charles Ogletree

He shouldn't be testifying, ... He's got the appearance of being somebody who was there on the scene. He wasn't there.

Christopher Seeger

We made it very clear that the reason they have given (for fleeing), that is genocide or 'ethnic cleansing' in Papua, we can testify to the fact that it is absolutely baseless.

Imron Cotan

If the government is prepared to call him as a witness, he is prepared to testify.

Joseph Conway

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon -- that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on.

Ambrose Bierce

Last time I checked, Pat Robertson didn't have a Ph.D. in science. He didn't testify for us because intelligent design is based on science.

Robert Muise

It's my understanding that he doesn't have information relating to this offer. I've communicated that to [the SEC]. I don't understand why they're so insistent on him testifying.

Leonard Sharenow

It is not acceptable to force mothers to testify against their daughters, to make lawyers testify against their clients, to require Secret Service agents to testify against the people they protect, or to make bookstores tell what books people read.

John Conyers

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees.

Aquilino Pimentel

They started this in the late 1950s, and it has been a long, tedious process. They really want to check everything she did and said, and people testify about her holiness.

Sister Maria Giuseppe

The numerous convictions of ... fathers and day-care workers based on memories fabricated by neurotics and therapists, or on coaxed-out lurid fantasies of pre-rational children, testify to the destructive effects false knowledge can have, particularly when it cloaks itself in pseudoscientific jargon.

Bruce Thornton

Follow the children's blood. Let them testify. Let them be heard today.

Tony Garcia

Bill Gates comes up to the Hill not just to testify, but to visit his senators, Slade Gorton [R-Wash.] and Patty Murray [D-Wash.], or other key senators.

Marc Pearl

In any police agency, we've had times where an officer leaves. We subpoena them and have them testify about their investigation in court.

Lisa Borges

Mr. Duncan will testify on Jan. 24 if the Committee votes to grant him immunity.

Robert Giuffra

She is a drama queen. She loves this kind of excitement. When the other side gives her whatever she is asking for, she will come back and testify.

Jerry Ragland

I think he enjoyed the limelight of this notorious crime and all the people in the courtroom, ... I think he wanted to get up on the witness stand to testify just as he testified. I think it was something unusual to this case. It was the way he wanted it conducted.

Bill Andrews

He said, he wanted to cooperate with the US government only under the circumstances that he would testify against himself at his trial.

James Fitzgerald

How many blind people do you need to testify? I don't mean to be grotesque, but that is what it is about. It is a parade of people who have serious injuries. Every family suffered from all of this and we all know it.

Fred Cohn

It doesn't get more important than a defendant testifying in his own behalf. It'll be make or break for him.

Kirby Behre

So many young people travel alone now a days. She obviously felt very strong about this case and was courageous enough to come and testify in court.

Rupa Goswami

[Jack King, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers spokesman, said defense attorneys will track down most defendants in those 300 cases.] Now, we need the FBI to provide a live witness, a scientist from the FBI Lab, to testify at post-conviction hearings on these old cases, ... Some of these guys have sat in jail for decades, and it's about time they got a fair hearing.

Jack King

We'll concede that payment was made, but it didn't have anything to do with killing or non-killing of his wife. While they were in jail together, they started talking about some business plans. The payment was for services Mr. Alsup was going to perform relative to the plans they had, another reason Ken has to testify to explain.

Robert Udell

When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth. The requirement to tell the truth applies equally to all citizens including persons who hold high positions in government.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We do, indeed, have experts we anticipate calling who will testify about this very subject.

Katherine Liell

As it were, it is difficult to bring in foreign experts to testify in cases facing terror suspects in the country since they are not covered in our legislation.

Richard Ogesare

Dr. Mallon will testify that (victim) exhibited symptoms of low blood sugar and after being given an IV responded as any person with low blood sugar would.

Dale Wren

You can't expect miners to come in and testify about unsafe conditions in the mine when you have their employers across the table from them.

Tony Oppegard

She had committed she would come forward and testify and everything that might entail. Obviously she took a big risk doing the interview. We had to turn it over to the defense.

Chuck Gillingham

As a word of caution, I'm not testifying to the veracity of comments about the activities of people other than John because I have no basis. The book strikes me, from the limited amount he ever told me, as richly authentic.

Jerry Murphy

They threaten to indict you in order to get you to testify consistently with their notion of the facts against the target they want. If you do, your life can continue. If you tell the truth, and stand on your moral conviction, you get indicted.

Richard Scrushy

I think these people testifying will be unsatisfied and many will just end up reliving the trauma. They should have limited it to four to five people. Why put everyone through that? Why put the jury through that?

Richard Moran

The legislation went through quickly and with very little consideration. Public pension managers absolutely said behind the scenes that this legislation isn't going to accomplish much in Sudan, but it is going to harm the pension system; they just did not want to testify and make this point. It's only country boys like me who are willing to bring this up.

William Blackstone

The government's main witnesses in regard to the Santoro homicide will each testify to a materially contradictory version of what happened.

Barry Levin

As we apply the final touches to the policy driven reforms of this legislation, I am grateful that my friend, Jim Gardner could come to Washington and testify as to the real world experiences in my hometown.

Nathan Deal

Our folks (DNR) love Fair Hill, so we have a shared objective with the citizens who came to Annapolis to testify.

Frederick Barton

We didn't think it was particularly pertinent to what we'd be testifying about. I can only testify to the facts as I know them, and that's it.

Claudio Manno

He will not be testifying in this case and that is his final decision.

Dan K. Webb

Co-operation means full co-operation with the government, which is that he intends to appear when called upon and testify truthfully to all facts that are in his possession.

Anton Valukas

One of his delusions drove him to testify, If I can just get up and talk to the American people, I will be set free.

Xavier Amador

[The tapes] reflect my client's best responses to a con job that Alsup was pulling. He's going to testify to explain the context in which the statements were made.

Robert Udell

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

Brandon Marshall

That's one way to spend taxpayer dollars. Maybe they should call expert witnesses from New Orleans to testify what happens when you don't have proper flood control.

Kurt Harclerode

Testify regarding extremely sensitive and at times offensive and degrading behavior.

John Clune

It had a huge impact. In most of our cases, the victims are reluctant or afraid to testify.

Victoria Adams

He either testifies with a grant of testimonial immunity, or he doesn't testify at all.

Charles Gittins

[Marvin Olasky, a conservative Christian writer who has been a strong Bush supporter, explained his sympathy for Miers.] Maybe it's the judicial implications of her evangelical faith, unseen on the court in recent decades, ... Friends who know Miers well testify to her internal compass that includes a needle pointed toward Christ.

Marvin Olasky

And we'll testify at the required hearing if this moves forward into reorganization.

Robert Rogers

In capital murder cases, snitches are the No. 1 factor, being present in 45 percent of wrongful convictions identified since 1976. When I define snitch, by the way, I don't mean just anybody who's in jail, but anybody who has an incentive to testify a certain way.

Rob Warden

I knew that she had committed welfare fraud and perjury, ... and I wanted her on the witness stand. I didn't want anything done to discourage her from testifying.

Tom Mesereau

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

Roger Scruton

(He) will testify the crime scene photos were staged and that the lead investigator had an agenda from the beginning.

Dale Wren

My client apologizes to the court for his actions, and he wishes to waive his preliminary hearing with his parents present in the courtroom. My client feels his parents have been through enough, and doesn't want them to have to testify.

Jamie Green

The court heard Judge (Charles) Burton (of the Palm Beach County canvassing board), called by the defendants, testify that they had been able to identify the clear intent of the voters such to add a net 215 votes to Vice President Gore.

David Boies

For more than a year, [special counsel Patrick J.] Fitzgerald has sought testimony from Ms. Miller about conversations she had with Mr. Libby. Her willingness to testify now was in part based on personal assurances given by Mr. Libby this month that he had no objection to her discussing their conversations with the grand jury, according to those officials briefed on the case.

David Johnston

It didn't have anyone's prints on it, ... because the rubber grip wasn't conducive to prints. We had an expert from the crime lab testifying about why there were no prints.

John Schmidt

Our concern with that change is it sets up an adversarial system. We know there are appraisers who testify for landowners and some for condemning parties. They may see their role differently under this, as an advocate rather than a neutral party serving the court.

Sally Howard

Mr. Brown is going to testify before Congress. If he receives no guidance to the contrary, we'll do as any citizen should do - and that is to answer all questions fully, completely and accurately.

Andrew Lester

She craved the spotlight. She enjoyed the attention. And that was probably her real reason for not testifying, not those lame excuses.

Julie Myers

I think that 42 victims testifying, 12 before [in the guilt phase] and 30 now, is a bit much.

Fred Cohn

My source genuinely wanted me to testify.

Judith Miller

The hearing is going to give Internet companies a chance to testify before Congressman Smith puts the final touches to the legislation.

Brad Dayspring

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Eva Pickens

I can't get into all the testimony at this time. But we've been meeting with him for some period of time. And he had some allegations that we thought were significant enough and serious enough that we wanted him to testify in Congress.

Edward Whitfield