Testify Quotations

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

My feeling is, if you're going to be called a celebrity, you might as well use it for some good. It's better to testify for school lunches in front of Congress than get drunk in a bar somewhere and misbehave.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

I testify that inspiration can be the spring for every person's hope, guidance, and strength. It is one of the magnified treasures of life. It involves coming to the infinite knowledge of God.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

The Holy Ghost will testify to our hearts, and the hearts of those gathered around with us, what He would have us do. And it is by keeping His commandments that we can have our hearts knit together as one.

We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.

As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes.

Personally, I think Condi Rice would make a very fine witness for the administration, but if they prefer not to have her testify in public, that's their choice.

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.

I would rather be held in contempt than support such a scandalous outcome. I won't testify if it's just against (Blumenthal), ... The point is (that) the president made sure, some way or another, that the story got into print. It was a threat against a potential witness -- a very vulgar and crude one, very typical of his modus operandi.

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

Mr. Gunter has agreed to testify against the two principals and we anticipate he will be very helpful as we prosecute this case for a death penalty.

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.

She could also testify to bouts of rage, sexual problems and other behavior consistent with steroid use. If he said he didn't use and he knowingly used them, he is in trouble and Bell can help the government's case.

Several studies, and a number of public statements by senior military and political personalities, testify that - except for disputes between the present nuclear states - all military conflicts, as well as threats to peace, can be dealt with using conventional weapons.

I am very aware that you will definitely not wish to testify in my favor. Neither do I expect this. I do expect you, however, to be willing to allow your testimony to contribute to the establishment of truth before an institution whose formation you supported.

I did not ask Mollie to testify. I never asked Drayton to testify before the hearing.

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.

But there's another whole dimension here, and that dimension is the public dimension -- and I think the American public would benefit from hearing Condi Rice testify under oath.

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.

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.

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

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

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

My reaction is to him is that I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. When I hear a man testify to all the horrible things he did, I wouldn't believe a word he says.

My very dear friend who is a friend no more didn't even give me a heads up that he was going to testify for my enemy.

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

pleased that she does not have to go through the painful and humiliating ordeal of having to testify on the floor of the Senate.

Our position is that our reporter will not testify to the district attorney or be interviewed by the district attorney or detectives from the District Attorney's Office. The Times Leader and its reporters are not investigators for the prosecution or the defense in any case; they are simply news reporters.

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.

I remember when I knew she was going to have to testify in the grand jury and I felt terrible because she'd been through the loss of her sister, this horrible accident at Christmas that killed her brother, and her mother was in the hospital. I was trying to make her understand that I didn't want her to be untruthful to the grand jury and if her memory was different than mine, it was fine, just go in there and tell them what she thought. So that's all I remember.

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.

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,

It is as if Clinton had called one of the most respected character witnesses in all of U.S. history to testify that the primal urge has a most distinguished presidential pedigree.

I testify to you that God's pay is the best pay that this world or any other world knows anything about.

I think it's wrong that it's closed, but that's what it is. They had no opportunity to have people come and testify publicly. I think we should go forward in that regard,

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,

Today's witness, Kenneth W. Starr, wrote the tawdry, salacious and unnecessarily graphic referral that he delivered to us in September with so much drama and fanfare. And now the majority members of this committee have called that same prosecutor forward to testify in an unprecedented desperation effort to breathe new life into a dying inquiry.

Those who are going to testify against him need security protection.

Wherever you live on this earth, and whatever your life's situation may be, I testify to you that the gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness.

You kick out our lawyers, you bring in witnesses by force and those that testify against us are anonymous -- is there a trial like this anywhere else in the world.

we went to work and we were under the impression that he probably wasn't (going to indict), or he would have ... called me to testify before the grand jury. I have not testified before the grand jury to present my side of the case, and they indicted me.

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

When the big oil companies came to Congress to testify about their record profits, we expected that they would tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Today, we learned that this was a standard they were not prepared to meet,

There are no experts out there willing to testify that because these guys are testing negative now that they will continue to test negative. The jury is still out and will be out for a long time as to whether these people are disease free. It might be five, 10, 15 years down the road before we know whether they'll continue to test negative.

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

When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth,

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.

There is a danger of possibly glorifying the so-called author scheduled to testify today by indirectly assisting him to sell more books through his claim that what he was doing was somehow good for his country or the game of baseball.

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.

We've also cut five other witnesses ... that were going to testify from the various airlines so that there would be no issue about taint based upon Ms. Martin's contact with their attorneys.

And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

The governor thinks it's a very important issue to be in D.C. to testify before the committee on all of the actions Texas took between Hurricane Katrina and Rita and the financial impact those actions had on our state and continue to have on our state.

The Sheriffs slated to testify before the (Senate) will demonstrate how those involved in law enforcement along the southern border share the same unique problems with very limited resources.

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

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

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,

Fingerprint examiners routinely testify that they have 100 percent confidence in their results, but that's just not the level of confidence that we really ever have in systems that involve human beings.

Do you remember that story I told you back in January? Well now that you're actually going to be a witness, now that you're going down to testify before the grand jury, I don't want you to give the grand jury a false impression. I don't want you to give false information to the grand jury. I don't want you to be a cog in the wheel of an obstruction of giving the grand jury the opportunity to hear the truth. I need to recant for you what I told you.

As lawyers, we recognize that a person's recollection of events will not always match those of other people, particularly when they are asked to testify months after the events occurred.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are you telling me, Mr. Jensen, that if Mr. Stevens were to testify that he did, in fact, tell you about that option, that you would say directly that he is lying?

There was a disadvantage to us in not being able to deal with Mr. Colburn at the time he was on the stand ... I think that disadvantage has been more than taken care of today because we had Mr. Case able to testify to that.

Every year, there are one or two people killed who were scheduled to testify in criminal court.

You're never happy when someone gets a life sentence, but there were some exceptional people who came forward to testify on Terry's behalf.

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.

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

A target of a grand jury investigation would be out of his mind to testify because he isn't allowed to have his attorney in there.

I prepared (Hollis) that his best friend would testify against him.

It was made very clear to me in discussions with Mr. Libby's counsel that he had personally approved and authorized Matthew Cooper fully to disclose everything about their conversations. I was satisfied that I had been given a direct and unequivocal assurance that Matt could testify and Libby had approved that.

The cultural shift that it is acceptable to tell people not to come to court to testify imperils the criminal justice system,

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.

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

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.

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.

As Mr. Henderson pointed out, she's at a crossroads in her life right now, but she's realized she has the opportunity to change that now. She has agreed to work with investigators and will testify as part of the (plea) agreement.

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.

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.

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.

You don't get John Gotti to testify against his driver. You get the driver to testify against John Gotti.

It was one of those things where the cops had to ask a bunch of people questions. I guess at the Waffle House or whatever. The next thing I know is that the cops found the vehicle and he was wearing the jewelry. Alphonso has his stuff back. I don't think he has to do anything except maybe he'll have to go testify against the guy. They found all of the stuff and caught the guy.

I cannot permit him to testify in this court of inquiry.

He offered to testify against himself for the government.

The Department of Homeland Security raises the alert status for financial centers in New York, New Jersey, and Washington to orange. The evidence supporting the warning, reconnaissance data left in a home in Iraq, later proves to be roughly four years old and largely out of date. Number 10. Last Thursday, at 10 a.m. Eastern time, the President addresses the National Endowment for Democracy, once again emphasizing the importance of the war on terror, and insisting his government has broken up at least 10 terrorist plots since 9/11. At 3 p.m. Eastern time, five hours after the President's speech has begun, the Associated Press reports that Karl Rove will testify again to the CIA leak grand jury and that special prosecutor Fitzgerald has told Rove he cannot guarantee that he will not be indicted.