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"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."
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"I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent."
"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."
"If you can get the proper definition of trouble, then we can find out who the real troublemakers are."
"I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable."
"I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters."
"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."
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"I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations."
"But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing."
"When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over."
"These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries."
"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."
"And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change."
"The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that."
"We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort."
"Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful."
"The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done."
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