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The government doesn`t really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I`d really heard about polygamists.

- Jeanne Tripplehorn

I`ve been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America.

- Richard Dean Anderson

If they drop charges against her, then she`d go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would decide when she`s well enough to go home, ... They`ve treated her like a serial killer, and my feeling all along has been it`s a waste of the taxpayers` money to prosecute her.

- Andrea Yates

Many of (the Native women victims) stay silent because of cultural barriers, a mistrust of white dominated agencies and also the history of inactivity of state and tribal agencies to prosecute crimes.

- Andrea Smith

But once you`re in the movie business, that`s where you meet the real criminals. You meet the guys who no law will ever prosecute - these are the studio bosses, the guys who swan around town with £80m yachts.

- Peter Mullan

Whoever it was that stole the ruby slippers they have not only robbed the museum, and robbed me of the ruby slippers, they have robbed these children of the possibility of a home. Hopefully if they know what these shoes were going to be used for it might appeal to their hearts to send them back. Just send them back. I won`t prosecute. I just want the shoes back so they can continue to work their magic.

- Michael Shaw

(The segment opened with Kelly saying DeLay is eager for his day in court and a clip of DeLay stating emphatically) I`m innocent, and Earle (Prosecutor Ronnie Earle) knows it. ... our job is to prosecute abuses of power.

- Greg Kelly

Mr. and Mrs. Smith get married, they have problems, they get back together and they live happily ever after. End of the movie. Two weeks later, he kills her, grinds her body up, feeds it to his girlfriend who dies of ptomaine poisoning, and her husband is prosecuted and sent to the electric chair for it--but here`s our own little story with the happy ending. What is an ending? There`s no such thing. Death is the only ending.

- Robert Altman

Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

- Marsha Blackburn

I expect VA`s inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

- Andreas Rummelt

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again.

- Andrew Griffin

I feel we have sufficient evidence to prosecute the case.

- Andy Finley

It`s nice on one hand because we have longer to prosecute the crimes. But on the other, we`re going to have to find a place to put all of the evidence.

- Ann Furr
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Which means we can`t prosecute it.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

If you go back to cases that are older than 1993, there`s a strong likelihood that the statute of limitations has run, which means we can`t prosecute it.

- Anne M. Mulcahy

I wish we could prosecute, but I don`t think we could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that her impairment caused her to go off the road.

- Annette Lee

I have nothing particular to say about why we didn`t prosecute. What I remember is the police report said there was a problem in determining how much money was missing.

- Anthony Germany

Human trafficking is a growing reality in the United States and the Senate`s action is an important step in fighting it. This new law not only strengthens the current trafficking law, it also grants additional funds to help prosecute sex trafficking offenders and offers protection to victims of this heinous crime.

- Armando Villareal

Today culminates a process of nearly two years to investigate and prosecute allegations of fraud against a state tax credit program that is intended to bring economic development to areas of our state most in need of growth,

- Armondo Surratt

We`ll continue to pursue very seriously any charges that are alleged against clergy members in an effort to try and prosecute them.

- Ashlin Miller