Hearsay Quotations

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Richard Nixon never raised a hand to Mrs. Nixon, ... Their affection and respect for one another is well known to all who knew them. It is inconceivable that he would have struck her for any reason. No family member or close friend has ever reported witnessing such behavior. The book contains no evidence, only rumor and second- and third-hand hearsay by the dead.

If they decided he was, he'd have the full rights under the Geneva Conventions: the right to call witnesses, the right of appeal and the right to view all the evidence against him. In a military commission, no enemy combatant has these rights and the prosecution can bring evidence, hearsay and statements taken by coercion

started with a complaint based on nothing but a rumor. The person that made the complaint wasn't in the operating room. It was pretty much third-person hearsay by the time the complaint was made. The picture taken was played up initially to be a naked lady on an operating table. It wasn't that at all.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

We're talking to Raffy right now about that. Rather than comment on hearsay ? I don't think it's a proper thing for me to do ? we'll wait and see when we get into the office.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character

They think they are defending me just against the board, but its my understanding that my attorney, Chuck Douglas, is going to try and take the case out of the committee and into court, ... If that happens, I suddenly get civil rights again. I get double jeopardy and hearsay protection, and they will have no case.

It's pretty hard to have a trial without witnesses and if you have just (a) hearsay report, you do not have the circumstances, you do not have the flavor, you do not have really the aura of the trial.

It's possible something Ellis said out of court might be used not only against him but Mr. DeLay. There is one exception to the hearsay rule: for statements made by co-conspirators.

It's a matter of how paranoid you are. What it could mean is that the president conceivably could sign a piece of paper when he has hearsay information that somebody has done something he doesn't like and send them to jail - without a hearing (or) a trial.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.