“And secondly, I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn't indict on the crime and so they go to something just to show that their two years of investigation was not a waste of time and taxpayer dollars.”

— Kay Bailey Hutchison

On the Scooter Libby case.
[October 23, 2005, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9764239/, "Transcript for October 23", Meet the Press, MSNBC, 2009-02-23]

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