Dick DeGuerin Quotes (72 Quotes)

We're ready for court. We want a trial. We've wanted to get in court for too long. There's only been one side of this being presented in any tribunal.

Tom DeLay changed the face of Texas politics - nobody can deny that, When we get to trial, any fair jury is going to find that Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.

We're not saying that Judge Perkins is a bad judge or an unfair judge. What we are saying is this is the wrong case for him to judge.

It's no answer for him to say he's indicted more Democrats than Republicans.

They stepped in the street. They're from England they looked in the wrong direction.

We don't want that to happen yet, until Judge Priest has an opportunity to rule on pretrial motions.

This was about the appearance of impropriety.

There's no setting, no trial, nothing that can be enforced. Whoever gets it, they can wad it up and throw them in the trash can.

Ronnie Earle, a local county prosecutor, is affecting the business of the United States by his foot dragging and his frivolous appeals, and we're not going to stop.

You know, he's a very talented, skillful surgeon. He won awards for being the top plastic surgeon in Houston several years in a row. Im hopeful he can get back to his life of helping other people.

This is the wrong case for Judge Perkins to judge because of his perfectly permissible activity as a Democrat and as a partisan and as a supporter of Democratic causes.

Frankly, a judge should avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

The Legislature is presumed to know what it's doing.

When they finally served Christine, it was time to do something.

What happened is (majority leader) Tom DeLay put an entirely new face on Texas politics. And Ronnie Earle is trying to destroy him for it.

I think everybody has cooperated with the government, and the evidence showed Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.

It ain't over. The Fat Lady hasn't sung.

One of the young ladies' mothers said that her daughter had explained that she looked up and saw a car coming from the wrong direction. That would be wrong from her perception.

The public perception of Judge Perkins' activities shows him to be on opposite sides of the political fence than Tom DeLay.

If you read the indictment, you can't tell what Tom DeLay is charged with doing.

I thought that this would be resolved quickly, and Congressman DeLay can get back to Washington and resume his post. But obviously, the game here is to keep Congressman DeLay out of his leadership post in the Congress.

The Court of Appeals unanimously held that Ronnie Earle had charged a crime that didn't exist at the time the crime occurred. ... It simply wasn't a crime.

I don't care whether we get a Republican judge or a Democratic judge. This is about getting a judge who hasn't been heavily politically active in contributing to causes and races opposed to Tom DeLay.

Anybody that has been to Great Britain knows they drive on the left hand side of the street.

All this talk about the legislative history gives me a headache.

He's just following the news. What does it have to do with whether money that came to candidates in Texas was corporate or individually donated

The girls either, because they panicked or because they didn't understand where the traffic was coming from, they stepped out in the roadway and the accident was unavoidable.

I said from the first day I saw the indictment that Ronnie Earle was charging a crime that didn't exist. And the 3rd Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with me.

All we want is a fair trial and a fair tribunal.

I'm a yellow dog Democrat, I represent Tom DeLay and I'm for Kinky I see no contradiction there.

I am determined to put on record the steps taken by you and your staff to obtain a replacement indictment against my client, Tom DeLay.

We're not going to try to get these people not to respond. But any lawyer worth his salt will see the subpoenas are not worth so much toilet paper.

There is no conspiracy. Just because people agree doesn't make it a crime. There has to be an agreement to violate the law. There was no agreement to violate the law.

He actually walked past the jail. He lived there for three years. I am surprised he didn't want to go in and renew old acquaintances.

We want a trial right away. We want a trial by the end of the year.

Before the first indictment you tried to coerce a guilty plea from Tom DeLay for a misdemeanor, stating the alternative was indictment for a felony which would require his stepping down as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.

I don't think it's make or break, but it's very, very important. We have other outside evidence to present.

I don't know that the jury had to like him, they just had to believe that he was right on the facts.

We'd like to get it over with before then, but it's not as crucial as it would have been if he were still in the running for his leadership post.

It's like a trial horse - they're trying it out to see how it plays.

Is it entirely altruistic that donors give Of course not. It's stupid to think a political donor doesn't try to increase their clout.

This gives us the opportunity to go over their heads.

I want him to be under the same conditions as someone who is on parole for bond-jumping, which usually means you report once a month by mail. The bottom line is that they put Bob on the kind of parole restrictions that are reserved for people who have been convicted of violent crimes, and he has not.

There's no crime that's been committed. I am confident that, when we get to trial, we'll show that Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.

Tom DeLay didn't do anything wrong.

We're discussing it. Everything is on the table -- except compromise.

Justice delayed is justice denied in this case. I ask you treat this case with dispatch and render decision forthwith.

Judge Perkins made political contributions to causes and persons opposed to Tom DeLay.

Without those disclosures or your authority to make inquiry of grand jury members, we cannot go forward on that matter.

We're going to see the outside money come into this race that will make 2002 and 2003 pale by comparison.