Dick DeGuerin Quotations

We're going to see the outside money come into this race that will make 2002 and 2003 pale by comparison.

We're not asking for any kind of special treatment for him. We want them to follow their own rules.

We're ready for court. We want a trial. We've wanted to get in court for too long. There's only been one side of this being presented in any tribunal.

No crime occurred, and no crime was charged.

Now we can really take the gloves off.

Now Ronnie Earle has what he was after, which was a mug shot.

Now Ronnie Earle has the mug shot he wanted.

I would have told you a month ago we'd be in trial by now, but that was before Ronnie Earle pulled his shenanigans with his frivolous appeals.

I don't know that the jury had to like him, they just had to believe that he was right on the facts.

I am determined to put on record the steps taken by you and your staff to obtain a replacement indictment against my client, Tom DeLay.

Frankly, a judge should avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

I don't think it's make or break, but it's very, very important. We have other outside evidence to present.

He's got what he wanted. There's no reason for this. It was pure retaliation on the part of Ronnie Earle. There he is. Take a good look at him.

He's basically under the same conditions. I don't think they can do that. I don't think it's lawful. We're not asking for any special treatment for him. We're asking for the same treatment they give other people with the same convictions.

He gave us a full and fair hearing, and I'm very encouraged.

He looks at the law and he sees what he wants to see, and he prosecutes what he thinks ought to be prosecuted, rather than what it is.

There is no conspiracy. Just because people agree doesn't make it a crime. There has to be an agreement to violate the law. There was no agreement to violate the law.

He's just following the news. What does it have to do with whether money that came to candidates in Texas was corporate or individually donated?

He should not be the judge to preside over the trial proceedings relating to a person to whom he is opposed politically.

He's going to have an extremely well-funded opponent in November.

He didn't see what he hit. He didn't know what he hit. He was frightened, so he drove on.

He didn't see them. He could have been stone-cold sober and had this accident.

He can subpoena all he wants, there's nothing there. I think he's trying to dig himself out of a hole. We're not concerned about it.

He can subpoena all he wants. There's nothing there.

The only thing left of this case is the money-laundering allegation. Plain and simply, there wasn't any dirty money to begin with. No corporate money ever went to any individual candidates in Texas.

It ain't over. The Fat Lady hasn't sung.

I think the jury is there to be entertained, in part, and to listen to something they can make sense of.

I think the physical evidence is inconsistent with the car being up on the curb on the sidewalk. I think the evidence is more consistent with them panicking and stepping out on the street.

I thought that this would be resolved quickly, and Congressman DeLay can get back to Washington and resume his post. But obviously, the game here is to keep Congressman DeLay out of his leadership post in the Congress.

It gives us more time. We don't have the crunch of getting a decision before November.

It is important to us to get this over with as quickly as possible.

It is important because it shows what Ronnie Earle is doing. He's just using the claimed authority of his office to bully people around.

I think everybody has cooperated with the government, and the evidence showed Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.

I said from the first day I saw the indictment that Ronnie Earle was charging a crime that didn't exist. And the 3rd Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with me.

Justice delayed is justice denied in this case. I ask you treat this case with dispatch and render decision forthwith.

(Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle) is trying to keep this case hanging around long enough to affect the November elections.

You know, he's a very talented, skillful surgeon. He won awards for being the top plastic surgeon in Houston several years in a row. I?m hopeful he can get back to his life of helping other people.

We're not through. We're going to the top.

We're not saying that Judge Perkins is a bad judge or an unfair judge. What we are saying is this is the wrong case for him to judge.

We are ready now. We don't want to delay the disposition of this case.

What you've got to do is look at the judge he (Jefferson) appoints.

When they finally served Christine, it was time to do something.

We'd like to get it over with before then, but it's not as crucial as it would have been if he were still in the running for his leadership post.

The fact that they didn't simply reject it is an extremely good sign for us. And secondly, that they've only given the state one week is also a good sign.

What we're trying to avoid is Ronnie Earle having him taken down in handcuffs, and fingerprinted and photographed. That's uncalled for, and I don't think that's going to happen.

We've been right all along that Ronnie Earle charged a crime that didn't exist and there's 30 years of precedent that backs that up. We want to get to trial and hope once we do, a jury will find Tom Delay didn't do anything illegal.

We think this was an accident. It would have happened whether the driver was stone cold sober or not. It was just an unavoidable accident. I think that, unfortunately, these young ladies stepped out in front of the car.

Without those disclosures or your authority to make inquiry of grand jury members, we cannot go forward on that matter.

We're discussing it. Everything is on the table -- except compromise.

We want a trial right away. We want a trial by the end of the year.

Bob was horrified at some of the things that he did, and he has tried to block from his mind, pretty successfully, some of the details.

Bob feels foolish. All he had to do was ask to go to the Galleria or ask to go to Galveston and they probably would have given him permission.

Bob feels foolish about doing what he did. All he had to do was ask to go to the Galleria or ask to go to Galveston and they probably would have given him permission.

Bob Durst has trouble showing emotion. Bob Durst feels deeply. He has feelings. I like Bob.

Everybody who becomes a judge has done something in their past. They've represented one side or another. If they took the oath of office and believe in the oath and impartially administer justice, that's all you can ask for.

There's no setting, no trial, nothing that can be enforced. Whoever gets it, they can wad it up and throw them in the trash can.

There's no crime that's been committed. I am confident that, when we get to trial, we'll show that Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.

Ronnie Earle, a local county prosecutor, is affecting the business of the United States by his foot dragging and his frivolous appeals, and we're not going to stop.

Anybody that has been to Great Britain knows they drive on the left hand side of the street.

The bottom line is Ronnie Earle wanted the mug shot.

This is a rabbit trail (Earle) is going down. There is nothing there, but he is trying to do what he can to muddy the waters.

This gives us the opportunity to go over their heads.

They stepped in the street. They're from England ? they looked in the wrong direction.

A county prosecutor has thrown a monkey wrench into the functioning of the United States Congress, and that's something that needs to be resolved.

It's a frivolous appeal. Ronnie has taken every dilatory tactic available to him.

It's a publicity stunt. At last count, there were 60 or something subpoenas.

It's like a trial horse - they're trying it out to see how it plays.

It's a plea for prompt disposition, which has been our cry all along. We want to get this case tried, and when we get it tried, we're going to win.

It's so far afield as to what the case is about, he (Earle) is just using it to generate stories.

It's certainly better than his parole being revoked.

It kind of indicates Ronnie's proclivities to make a big splash with this.

I want him to be under the same conditions as someone who is on parole for bond-jumping, which usually means you report once a month by mail. The bottom line is that they put Bob on the kind of parole restrictions that are reserved for people who have been convicted of violent crimes, and he has not.

They are not going to come up and arrest him.

That's astonishing, astonishing that they would get a grand jury to indict and allege there is a list and then they have to admit in open court the first time they appear in open court that there is no list.

In my experience I have never seen the type of vituperative responses and opinions expressed by 80 percent of the large jury panel as are present in this case.

I guess he was released because we filed a lawsuit against them.

If you did nothing improper, you should not be concerned about answering these questions.

If you read the indictment, you can't tell what Tom DeLay is charged with doing.

Before the first indictment you tried to coerce a guilty plea from Tom DeLay for a misdemeanor, stating the alternative was indictment for a felony which would require his stepping down as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.

Generally speaking, Mr. DeLay has put all his confidence in the legal system that these charges will be resolved in a timely fashion.

I don't think there's anybody who needed me worse.

I don't mean to make a pun, but justice delayed is justice denied in this case.

He actually walked past the jail. He lived there for three years. I am surprised he didn't want to go in and renew old acquaintances.

All he would have had to do was ask and get permission and he could have gone shopping at the Galleria, but he didn't. He feels very foolish about doing this.

All we want is a fair trial and a fair tribunal.

All this talk about the legislative history gives me a headache.

The girls either, because they panicked or because they didn't understand where the traffic was coming from, they stepped out in the roadway and the accident was unavoidable.

The Court of Appeals unanimously held that Ronnie Earle had charged a crime that didn't exist at the time the crime occurred. ... It simply wasn't a crime.

The Legislature is presumed to know what it's doing.