Perjury Quotations

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

For years in Washington, they've all ended the same way - perjury and obstruction of justice. I don't know why people don't learn this lesson.

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters. It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

It's our obligation as the committee when we have an athlete who testified under oath, ... We need to determine the timing of the drug test and what was found in his system to understand whether perjury is an issue here.

It's counter productive and I think it makes people even today think he's not telling the truth, and frankly it's time to just admit it, go from there, say he didn't mean to commit perjury ...

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Charge me with perjury and I will be on the next plane to the U.S. I'll face them in court. You cannot get clearer than that. It's put up or shut up.

People fudge the truth all the time. Perjury is the big lie, the lie that has an impact on the investigation, on victims.

Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.