Stan Brand Quotations

When this is all over, this will be bigger than any (government scandal) in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the breadth to it. It will include high-ranking members of Congress and executive branch officials.

He is going to have an incentive to give a lot of information about others that will help him at sentencing. The way this has been moving, it's been speeding up at the end. You would expect public officials to start to go in the next month; at least one of them. There's not that much left to do.

What you have discovered is a discrepancy between being a high-ranking leadership person and a person who isn't.

It is absolutely beyond the legal pale. It is an excessive and unprecedented use of congressional power.

Most members don't do that to that degree; the only time they ever called the state reps they knew was when it was redistricting time,

The government doesn't accept pleas from people without getting information against others. I don't know if (DeLay) is next, but he's clearly within the scope of their sights. They've penetrated his office now.

They have what they really need to spark the fire, with not one but two cooperating witnesses who were part of the conspiracy. No one can outrun a grand jury. No one can outrun a public integrity section that has now generated a full head of steam. ... Before this is over, people will be indicted.

These people all shared transactions together. That's always something that worries defense lawyers.

He wrote a new chapter, which was exporting the federal power of his office back to his state.