Patrick Fitzgerald Quotes (32 Quotes)

The people we're looking for don't really frequent the bars of downtown now, ... We're marketing mostly for business professionals.

He lied about it afterward, under oath and repeatedly,

It is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.

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.

Mr. Libby's story that he was at the tail end of a chain of phone calls, passing on from one reporter what he heard from another, was not true. It was false. He was at the beginning of the chain of the phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And he lied about it afterward, under oath, repeatedly.

was at the beginning of the chain of phone calls, the first official to disclose this information outside the government to a reporter. And then he lied about it afterwards.

Today's charges involve the most disturbing of allegations. The victimization of children in the depraved manner described can never be tolerated. The sort of conduct alleged in today's charges will continue to draw the attention and energies of federal, state and local law enforcement.

There's no allegation in the indictment in Chicago that anyone adopted children. The indictment doesn't speak to that, and I'll just look to my left to make sure of that. There's no such allegation about someone being adopted.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas derided any potential perjury charge as a technicality, ... two years' of investigation was not a waste of time and dollars.

whether I thought Mr. Libby had tried to shape my testimony.

It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation.

He claims to be a citizen but he is not an American, ... He claims to be a religious man, but he is not a true Muslim.

When you decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime, you want to know as many facts as possible. You want to know what their motive is. ... You want to know their intent. ... If you are asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you.

The government has produced all documents and information to which defendant is entitled. Requiring the production of the additional materials sought by defendant would unreasonably encroach on legitimate interests of national security, grand jury secrecy and executive privilege.

We plan on vigorously defending the case. We are very proud of our franchise system, which has been recognized repeatedly for its commitment to quality franchising.

We have everything you can find at a Strip casino but we have 5 tables. That's who we are -- that's our brand. It's affordable luxury.

The guy who's installing it has ensured me it's going to be hospital-quality air, ... There's no place like it in Columbus. We're going to have six-night-a-week live entertainment, something that someone over 35 can enjoy. It would be more like a jazz club with some '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s and maybe some '80s music.

The truth is the engine of our judicial system, and if you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost.

I was not surprised the appellate court overturned one small part of the dismissal. Her case survived another day, that doesn't give it more merit, in our view.

A CIA officer's name was blown and there was a leak and we needed to figure out how that happened, who did it, why, whether a crime was committed, whether we could prove it, whether we should prove it. Given national security was at stake, it was especially important that we find out accurate facts.

Online thieves who steal merchandise that companies work hard to produce and protect might think that cyberspace cloaks them in anonymity and makes them invulnerable to prosecution but we have the ability to infiltrate their secret networks and hold them accountable for their criminal conduct.

As a prosecutor, you have two roles Show judgment as to what to go after and how to go after it. But also, once you do that, to be zealous. And if you're not zealous, you shouldn't have the job. Now sometimes 'zealous' becomes a code word for overzealous and I don't want to be overzealous. I hope I'm not,

We make no allegation that the vice president committed any criminal act.

When a vice president's chief of staff is charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, it does show the world that this is a country that takes its law seriously that all citizens are bound by the law.

A CIA employee assigned to provide daily intelligence briefs to the Vice President and Libby has handwritten notes indicating that Libby referred to 'Joe Wilson' and 'Valerie Wilson' by those names in conversation with the briefer on June 14, 2003.

I have determined that American lives can be saved by ending the ongoing stonewalling by these two suspects, who have clearly orchestrated a campaign that endangers U.S. intelligence agents' lives. The Weekly Standard has opened my eyes to the fact that my being previously unprepared to torture is deeply immoral, given the American lives that I believe can be saved by the urgently needed information Cheney and Rove possess.

The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is death.

We need to know the truth. Anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime.

He felt that it was premature for University Heights to have filed for bankruptcy in this case.

they could not have picked a worse person.

had no idea she had another life.

This is simply an indictment that says, in a national security investigation about the compromise of a CIA officer's identity that may have taken place in the context of a very heated debate over the war, whether some person -- a person, Mr. Libby -- lied or not.