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"I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy."
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Lee Harvey Oswald
"I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy."
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"I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm."
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Susan Smith
"I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm."
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"It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him."
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Ruth Ellis
"It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him."
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"I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service."
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Melita Norwood
"I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service."
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"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
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Jack Abramoff
"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."
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"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."
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John Gotti
"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."
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"I need to die for the killing of those people."
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Aileen Wuornos
"I need to die for the killing of those people."
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"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
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Adolf Hitler
"The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."
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"Now I know why tigers eat their young."
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Al Capone
"Now I know why tigers eat their young."
Now,
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"I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me."
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Arthur Bremer
"I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me."
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"I wasn't angry the night I shot him."
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Mark David Chapman
"I wasn't angry the night I shot him."
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"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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Lynette Fromme
"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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"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"
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Hermann Goering
"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"
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"I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck."
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Susan Smith
"I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck."
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"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."
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Susan Smith
"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."
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"I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly."
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Charles Manson
"I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly."
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"All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy."
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John Dillinger
"All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy."
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"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."
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Aldrich Ames
"Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point."
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"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."
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Aldrich Ames
"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."
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"There will always be a father."
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Gary Gilmore
"There will always be a father."
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"A spirit in my feet said go, and I went."
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Matthew Brady
"A spirit in my feet said go, and I went."
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"Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option."
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Timothy McVeigh
"Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option."
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"The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow."
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Guy Burgess
"The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow."
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"I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me."
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Gary Gilmore
"I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me."
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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."
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Aldrich Ames
"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."
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"My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly."
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Julius Rosenberg
"My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly."
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"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."
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Jeffrey Skilling
"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."
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"My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited."
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Aldrich Ames
"My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited."
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"Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice."
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Lee Harvey Oswald
"Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice."
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"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
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Jeffrey Skilling
"It was a very difficult 10 years of very hard work."
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"This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be."
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Julius Rosenberg
"This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be."
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"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
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Aldrich Ames
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
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"I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them."
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Jesse James
"I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them."
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"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
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Aldrich Ames
"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo."
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"They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization."
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Lee Harvey Oswald
"They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization."
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"So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine."
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E. Howard Hunt
"So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine."
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"The world may believe as it pleases."
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Cole Younger
"The world may believe as it pleases."
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"I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them."
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Susan Smith
"I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them."
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"I don't get to go out but an hour a day."
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Susan Smith
"I don't get to go out but an hour a day."
Day,
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"My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say."
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Susan Smith
"My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say."
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"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
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Arthur Bremer
"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
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"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
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Aldrich Ames
"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
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"In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man."
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Jack Abramoff
"In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man."
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"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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Aldrich Ames
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
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"For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift."
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Michael Milken
"For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift."
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"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."
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E. Howard Hunt
"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency."
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"A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it."
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Jim Jones
"A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it."
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"No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life."
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Jesse James
"No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life."
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"I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want."
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Julius Rosenberg
"I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want."
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"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."
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Cole Younger
"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."
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