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Quotes by Criminal
"Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home."
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"By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter."
64
"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."
64
"Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon."
64
"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."
63
"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."
63
"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
63
"I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die."
63
"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
62
"As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend."
62
"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."
61
"We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has brought."
61
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
61
"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."
60
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
60
"It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person."
60
"If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter."
60
"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans."
60
"It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child."
59
"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."
58
"I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover."
58
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
58
"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."
57
"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."
57
"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."
56
"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
56
"Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better."
56
"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."
56
"You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy."
55
"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction."
55
"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business."
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