Perjury Quotations

Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.

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

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

Perjury in the courtroom can be eliminated by changing the oath to read: Do you solemly swear that SOME of your testimony in this matter will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...so help you God?

For years in Washington, they've all ended the same way - perjury and obstruction of justice. I don't know why people don't learn this lesson.

I believe that if you commit perjury under oath and you suborn perjury and you obstruct justice, then you ought to be impeached, ... Meet the Press.

We're on the record as saying ... that Mr. Clinton and his surrogates have already engaged in perjury, subornation of perjury and obstruct of justice and that evidence gives us a right to a legal presumption that Mr. Clinton's entire case is weak and unfounded. Therefore, there was error and the case should go to a jury.

The pending prosecution is not about the guilt or innocence of the defendants. This is about lies perpetrated by a federal prosecutor and a federal agent, as alleged in the indictment. It's about perjury and the integrity and fairness of the judicial system.

When a vice president's chief of staff is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, it does show the world that this is a country that takes its law seriously; that all citizens are bound by the law.

It would have been a good resignation speech for a president leaving office because of illness, or for one who had lost congressional support because of differences over policies. It was not the speech of a president who had violated his constitutional oath and duty by obstructing justice, by abusing the power of his office, by transforming the Oval Office into a mean den where perjury and low scheming became a way of life.

We've got to be patient on what's going on. We've just got to have the perjury charge finished and done with.

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.

Very rarely do obstruction of justice cases and perjury cases come as neatly tied as Martha Stewart's ... it is by no means a slam dunk,

People fudge the truth all the time. Perjury is the big lie, the lie that has an impact on the investigation, on victims.

Now, just -- just a few minutes ago, you heard Manager Gekas talk to you about perjury, ... And probably 90 percent of what he talked to you about was perjury in the (Paula) Jones case. It appears to make no difference, though, that the House rejected this charge, for the managers do continue to dwell on it, as though somehow they could show the House from which they came that they'd made a mistake.

There's new factual record information that needs to be here for you to decide the guilt or innocence question on the perjury and obstruction of justice charges." ()

I'm telling you now, if the facts don't change, it is the most overwhelming case for grand jury perjury I have ever seen in my life. And what am I going to do?

If you agree that perjury and obstruction of justice have been committed and yet you vote down the conviction ... you raise the most serious questions of whether the president is, in fact, subject to the law or whether we are beginning a restoration of the divine right of kings,

It's our obligation as the committee when we have an athlete who testified under oath, ... We need to determine the timing of the drug test and what was found in his system to understand whether perjury is an issue here.

It's counter productive and I think it makes people even today think he's not telling the truth, and frankly it's time to just admit it, go from there, say he didn't mean to commit perjury ...

I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get charged with perjury strictly for political purposes.

Charge me with perjury and I will be on the next plane to the U.S. I'll face them in court. You cannot get clearer than that. It's put up or shut up.

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters. It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

(The head of the crime lab) was committing perjury in criminal cases where he would intentionally misrepresent scientific data to help prosecutors get a conviction, even when he knew that that data was false.

The indictment of the vice president's chief of staff for perjury and obstruction of justice is an occasion to consider just how damaging the long public career of Richard Cheney has been to the United States.

The horrid tale of perjury and strife,Murder and spoil, which men call history.

a complete and impartial review of the evidence reveals that the president did in fact commit perjury before the grand jury.

According to Ms. Lewinsky, the president touched her breasts and genitalia, which means his conduct met the Jones definition of sexual relations even under his theory, ... On these matters, the evidence of the president's perjury cannot be presented without specific, explicit and possibly offensive descriptions of sexual encounters.

I demand they charge me with perjury and I'll be in the next plane to face it.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.