Edward MacMahon Quotations

Please don't make him a hero. He just doesn't deserve it.

It is difficult for the defense to fathom why the Congressman would be eager to discuss these matters on Oprah, yet he would refuse to swear, in a capital case, that the same information is actually true.

You haven't connected that man to any one of the people who hijacked those planes, right?

We need to know almost frozen in time what was known by the government before the planes hit the World Trade Center.

The government needs jurors who have seen 'The Wizard of Oz' all the way through and still think there is a wizard.

That's not a wild goose chase. That's bingo.

They told me there was no other surveillance. But the fact is that the case against a lot of these guys just came out of nowhere because they were really nobodies, and it makes you wonder whether they were being tapped.

This will give us time to investigate the case and prepare us for trial.

Your honor ... he was given a slide show,

Your honor ... he was given a slide show. In August of 2001, Tenet was given a presentation called 'Islamic Extremist' or 'Islamic Fundamentalist Learns to Fly.

You needed people in Washington to help you out.

This is not going to be a fair trial.

Abu Ali intends to plead not guilty to all of these charges. He expects to have a fair trial at which he will be vindicated.

You tried to move heaven and earth to get a search warrant to search this man's belongings. You were obstructed.

Nothing he did or said ... caused anyone to die.

There isn't any way of putting the genie back in the bottle.

What the government wants you to believe is only a dream.

We don't think the government has any appellate rights.

He's manipulative and obviously so, and now you are the target. He's trying to write a role for himself in history, when the truth is he was just a hanger-on.