I have said all along that I am not in this case to hinder the police investigation. I have twice now, in December of 2004 and in January of this year, been threatened with jail time for hindering and obstructing. And where they get this from, I don't know.
Quotes about obstructing (16 Quotes)
The Senate minority needs to stop obstructing its reauthorization. It's time for the Senate to complete their work.
Thats not a good idea. People need to stay away, ... If they show up and disrupt what were doing, we will arrest them for obstructing justice.
She belittled me in a meeting and told me not to have any further contact with the Department of Labor. I got pushed off the case and that, to me, was a definite no-no, as that was obstructing an investigation I was trying to do.
The biggest problem obstructing our progress was finding businesses owned by minorities that met the needs of the University.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so.
Making a mistake is far different than, for example, obstructing justice. Abuse of power is far more serious than having an affair 30 years ago. I just urge the president of the United States to stop his allies from engaging in this kind of disgusting conduct.
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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.
Royal Caribbean's crimes -- including dumping oil into our oceans, lying about it and trying to cover it up by obstructing justice -- are serious offenses that require serious punishment.
Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) shot back that Republicans were obstructing justice through their threats of impeachment. The criticism Reno has received, the threats that have been made against her and the position she holds, are the political equivalent of an obstruction of justice, ... In an ironic sort of way, members of the majority have made it almost impossible for the attorney general to actually name an independent counsel. She's been threatened with impeachment, hearings, she should be immediately replaced. If the woman names an independent counsel, it's going to appear she was intimidated. And if she doesn't, she's defending the president.
The fact is this looks like they are skating on pretty thin ice and whether they are going to be suspected of obstructing justice will have to be decided.
I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
The security services should not be obstructing the work of the independent and opposition media in this fashion, as it is contrary to the pledges which the government gave in its recent road map to democracy.