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I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he`s guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

- Jim Garrison

I saw that the county prosecuting attorney, Mike Nolan, was looking for an assistant county prosecuting attorney, ... I hadn`t been to Athens before.

- Michael Ward

When you`re in the prosecuting attorney`s office you`re kind of a specialist. The civil responsibilities were one of the greatest learning curves I had to take on when I got into office.

- Michael Ward

(But yesterday, the Wells brothers told District Court Judge John Bradbury that) Riggins was not involved at all, ... We will assess how credible that is and if that`s true, we will dismiss in a heartbeat. We will not continue prosecuting a person who is innocent.

- Bill Thompson

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

- Leigh Steinberg

I have now no hopes of prosecuting my journey into New England this winter; my present state of health will by no means admit of it.

- Alan Rodger

Understanding that yes, we are committing more resources than we thought we might be in protecting our homeland and prosecuting a war and so it`s understandable that we would be going through a period of deficits.

- Alan Yates

If you violate Nature`s laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

- Alvaro Cifuentes

I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together.

- Andra Turner

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

- Andrea Vinyard

What happened was a terrible tragedy. You don`t honor (the victims) by wrongfully prosecuting these pilots. This is political appeasement of Canadians who are angry.

- Anthony McFarland

If Giuliani`s in, he`s in. If somebody else is in, he`s in. But the key factors are the issues she`s been prosecuting, and that`s what you`re going to hear tonight and that`s what you`re going to hear between now and November.

- Archie Seale

a partisan Democrat who has done some really rotten political prosecuting.

- Astrid van Genderen Stort