Mel Brooks Quotes

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

I think the prosecution had all the evidence in front of them to have won the case.

And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

I appeal to your own eyes as my witness and judge.

… adjudged not to him who had the truth on his side, but by the last word in the dispute.

I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.