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Quotes by Criminal
"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
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"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."
4
"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."
4
"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."
4
"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
4
"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."
4
"The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it."
4
"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."
4
"I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company."
4
"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
4
"I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process."
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"Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away."
Old,
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"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"
4
"Well, actually, I had been working as a consultant to former companies of Enron, or predecessor companies of Enron and, so, I joined in 1990 to really start our wholesale merchant business."
4
"I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times."
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"I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over."
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"If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan."
4
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"We are all victims because of the circumstances, but I'm not sure what to say to any one who has lost a loved one. I know the feeling myself, and words just don't do much to ease the pain."
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"I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans."
4
"A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light."
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"I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic."
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"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns."
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"An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product."
4
"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."
4
"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
4
"It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington."
4
"We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really."
Work,
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"Who says I am not under the special protection of God?"
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