Patrick Fitzgerald Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

People who believe fervently in the war effort, people who oppose it, people who have mixed feelings about it, should not look to this indictment for any resolution of how they feel or any vindication of how they feel.

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.

If only it were true. It is not true, according to the indictment,

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

This was not someone illegally downloading a song. These were copyright violations on a massive scale.

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

We're obviously very gratified by today's verdict. It was a very important case.

He's got energy and talent and enthusiasm and he will be a terrific inspector general for them. I think that's just a great move on the city's part.

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

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.

He lied about it afterward, under oath and repeatedly,

I would welcome such a communication reaffirming Mr. Libby's waiver.

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.

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.

We never comment on people not charged. Don't read anything into that. It's a continuing investigation.

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

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.

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.

We'll have more to say after the special counsel has his press availability,

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.

When citizens testify before grand juries, they are required to tell the truth,

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation.

Officers and directors of publicly traded companies who steer shareholders' money into their pockets should not lie to the board of directors to get permission to do so.

determine the facts and then outline those facts for the American people.

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,

You need to understand the pain, the horror, the agony that the bombing put so many families through.

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

they could not have picked a worse person.

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.

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.

The need to get to the bottom of what happened -- and whether national security was compromised by inadvertence, by recklessness, by maliciousness -- is extremely important, ... Anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime.

I'll be blunt. That talking point won't fly.

I just got a great feeling when I went over there. I met the players, and I fit right in. They didn't treat me any differently because I was a recruit. The staff was very welcoming, and I like all the coaches.

Citizens of state deserve honest government from their secretary of state and their governor and expect no less.

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

The damage wasn't to one person. It wasn't just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us.

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 indictment states that a joint venture was created and that this joint venture was in fact a sham.

The citizens of this state deserve honest government.

My job is to investigate whether or not a crime is committed, can be proved and should be charged. I'm not going to comment on what to make beyond that. You know, it's not my jurisdiction, not my job, not my judgment.

Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA.

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