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Quotes by Criminal

"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."

"Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction."

"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."

"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."


"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."

"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."

"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."

"Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources."

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think."

"It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace."

"I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die."

"I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed."

"Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort."

"The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble."

"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."

"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."

"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."


"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it."

"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."

"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses."

"I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful."

"As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid."

"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

"We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it."


"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"

"I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield."

"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are."


"Michael and Alex, I love you. And we're going to have the biggest celebration when you get home."

"Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache."

"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage."
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