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Quotes by Criminal

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

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

"We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."

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

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

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

"I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told."

"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."


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

"We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary."

"First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that."

"I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want."

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

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

"We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought."

"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."

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

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

"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
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