The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

- Donella Meadows

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

- Groucho Marx

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

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

- David Josiah Brewer

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

- David O. Russell

Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.

- Dan Castellaneta

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

- David Bergen

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

- Donella Meadows

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

- Donella Meadows

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

- Donella Meadows

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.

- Alberto Gonzales

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

- Donna Brazile

We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.

- Dave Barry

I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.

- Catherine Crier

I vote and I do jury duty.

- Christopher Hitchens

We opposed unlimited detention without trial. We stood up for trial by jury as well. And of course we spoke up for asylum seekers and for the most vulnerable in our society.

- Charles Kennedy

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

- Byron White

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

- Bernhard Goetz

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

- Ben Bradlee

The jury could get the case as early as next week, but the defense says they just want to introduce one last-minute load of crap.

- Bill Maher