Special Prosecutors Quotes

Isn’t that a sweetheart deal. The Attorney General is appointed by the President; then investigates the President.

There's no way you can depend on the Attorney General of the United States to investigate high government officials.

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

Independent counsel Kenneth Starr claimed that his official investigation was not about sex, but about perjury and the abuse of power, yet his final report mentioned sex five hundred times. Harper’s Magazine ... claimed that Starr was intent on writing a “dirty book,” recording (and relishing) every trashy detail of a sad soap opera.

Mr. Doheny, Mr. Sinclair, and Mr. Fall will have the best attorneys their millions can employ. The United States Government needs the biggest and best prosecutors that can be had to meet those attorneys in the courtroom and carry the criminal prosecution to conviction

It is true that no man is above the law but neither should any man be asked to break the law in order to buy his freedom.

Investigations by special prosecutors can take on a life of their own.

We used to try and make fools out of our political opponents. Now we try and make criminals out of them.

You have violated your obligations under the independent counsel statute and have unlawfully intruded on the power of impeachment, which the Constitution gives solely to the House [of Representatives.]

They [special prosecutors] have an unending license to do somebody in.

The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.

It’s a miserable piece of legislation, but its on the books so we’ve got to enforce it.

A federally paid sex policeman.

A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?

The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.

Ken Starr has become a prosecutorial Captain Ahab.

Good days begin when you're name isn't in the newspapers.

The power to investigate and prosecute is the power to destroy.