Kenneth Lay Quotes

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him.

I have not killed anyone. They will not let me.

Some people just seem like they are up to no good. Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict, and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

The media had me convicted of doing something wrong before I had even done anything at all, before I had talked to anyone, before I get out of bed. I'm always the bad person.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

I had to grow up in prison for something I did not do.

The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.

Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!

DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

The innocent are frequently punished instead of the guilty

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

We have a situation where a young man is basically convicted of his own murder.

I'm being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It's just insane. I haven't done anything. What are they accusing me of?

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.

My name has been cleared after being blacklisted even though it was for no fault of mine.

If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?

Listen, not everybody can afford to get a great lawyer and defend yourself against something that you didn't do.