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Quotes by Criminal

"Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."

"I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union."

"I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed."

"The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization."

"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."

"Equal and united people can above all become a part of the civilization toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be at the head of the column leading to such a civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be at is tail."

"I think we had made some tremendous progress in the six months before I left."

"Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with."

"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."

"I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you."

"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain."

"My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it."

"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."

"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."

"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."

"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."

"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution."

"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."

"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter."

"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."

"I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along."

"We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll."

"I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment."


"I dropped to the lowest point when I allowed my children to go down that ramp into the water without me."

"I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it."

"Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party."

"We have repeatedly issued warnings, over a number of years. Following these warnings and these calls, anti-American explosions took place in a number of Islamic countries."

"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
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