Testify Quotes

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences. - Whittaker Chambers

A target of a grand jury investigation would be out of his mind to testify because he isn't allowed to have his attorney in there. - Peter Henning

[Woodward said he had deliberately kept a low profile during the case to protect his sources.] The terms of engagement change when a reporter and reporters are being subpoenaed, agreeing to testify, being forced to testify, being jailed... That's the new element in this. And what it did, it caused me to become even more secretive about sources, and to protect them. I couldn't do my job if I couldn't protect them. And to really make sure that I don't become part of this process, but not to be less aggressive in reporting the news. - Bob Woodward

[The tapes] reflect my client's best responses to a con job that Alsup was pulling. He's going to testify to explain the context in which the statements were made. - Robert Udell

[One of the issues Starr wants McDougal to testify about is a $5,000 check she wrote and marked] payoff Clinton. ... comes out it is going to be one of the most laughable things about this whole investigation. - Mark Geragos

[On a day it was revealed that Barry Bonds might be called to testify at a House committee hearing investigating steroid use in baseball, Commissioner Bud Selig hinted he might at some point do his own investigation of past steroid use.] I'll do that in a very sensitive manner. I'm sorry. I don't agree with naming names and hurting people. You can get to the truth in a different way... Maybe when a definitive history is written someday, long after I'm gone, we can make some sense of this. But there are a lot of players being named who deny it emphatically. I believe in the sense of fairness. - Bud Selig