Edward MacMahon Quotes (16 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This trial cannot be viewed by you as jurors as part of the war on terror. We must give this man a fair trial no matter who he is, what he thinks of us and who he represents.

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 needed people in Washington to help you out.

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.

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

This is not going to be a fair trial.

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

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

When the government elects not to produce evidence, then the government is restricting the defendant's ability to defend himself. When the government restricts someone from preparing a defense, they should not be allowed to ask for the death penalty.

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