I had no idea my client would be called a liar and attacked.

I'm not calling anybody in this room a murderer or killer. I'm not talking about anybody's kids, ... Do we need pharmaceutical companies? Of course we do. But this was a pain pill.

It's about marketing over science. We're going to show that the company knew all about the risks before they sold the drug. We're going to force them to defend the case on the science.

Don't let them come in here and fool us, ... when they have this attitude about the FDA and then hide behind the FDA.

When I started this trial, I thought we were going to try this case on science. I had no idea my client would be called a liar.

When you have the evidence, you have to test it, and you test it before you put a single pill into a human.

Was it all given? In some cases, I have to say yes. But was it given in a way that they could understand? No.

What you've seen from Merck is really nothing more than an act of desperation. When you have no science, you attack the victim.

We are trying the case on the science,

Merck calculated cardiovascular warnings would cost the company 50 percent of its profits through 2006.