Chris Webber Quotes

Innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections.

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

I don't have to prove my innocence to the court or to the news media.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

The core civil liberty that underpins our American criminal justice system is the presumption of innocence. Every person enjoys this presumption long before the commencement of any investigation or official proceeding.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

The Monica Lewinsky scandal was happening at the very time I was writing the West Wing pilot and it was hard, at least for Americans, to look at the White House and think of anything but a punch line. Plus a show about politics, a show that took place in Washington, had just never worked before in American television. So the show was delayed for a year.

On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

The media is running the entire left wing of America. But I think they are disgusting more and more people all over this country. I think they are just turning people off, and I don't think they yet have any idea of the damage they are doing to the Democrat Party, which is where people show their disgust with this.

People only know what they see on TV.

The press is like a woman: sublime when it lies, it will not let go until it has forced you to believe it. The public, like a foolish husband, always succumbs.

If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

We're looking at two different presidents here if all we have to go on is the media. When Donald Trump is in Washington, D.C., what is he? He is a genuine idiot. He's impolitic, he's uninformed, he's running a chaotic administration where nobody knows what anybody is doing. Whenever they do anything it is disastrous. But the Donald Trump of Washington doesn't exist, because the Donald Trump of Washington is what is reported in the Drive-By Media.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.