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Quotes by Criminal
"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
21
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
20
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
20
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
20
"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
20
"My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!"
19
"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans."
19
"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
18
"What good fortune for governments that the people do not think."
18
"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it."
18
"As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend."
18
"We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before."
18
"I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying."
18
"It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations."
18
"I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time."
Time,
18
"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City."
17
"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."
17
"We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought."
17
"At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation."
17
"In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked."
17
"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"
17
"You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation."
16
"For me Christianity is about the Kingdom, not about the Church: it has to do with human growth and development nor church growth and development."
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