Richard Ben-Veniste quotes

“You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

#Fifth Amendment Quotes #Way Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

Source : "Paula Zahn Now", www.cnn.com. April 15, 2004.

#Change Quotes #Way Quotes #Done Quotes

“With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

#Respect Quotes #Decision Quotes #Information Quotes

“No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

Source : "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

#Iraq Quotes #Connections Quotes #Catastrophe Quotes

“Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

#Iraq Quotes #Effort Quotes #United States Quotes

“Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

#Voice Quotes #Justice Quotes #Office Quotes

“I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in Mean Streets. Im a fan.”
-- Richard Ben-Veniste

#Mean Quotes #Fans Quotes #Mean Streets Quotes

“The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.”

“Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.”

“To justify God's ways to man.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.”

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.”

“Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.”

“One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.”