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Quotes by Criminal
"There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance."
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"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."
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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."
Life,
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"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries."
War,
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"I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders."
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"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
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"You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy."
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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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"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
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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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"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
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"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
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"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"
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"In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy."
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"I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic."
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"When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids."
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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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"Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going."
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"In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets."
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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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"I explain this not for publicity, nor seeking to win an argument of right or wrong, I explain so that the record is clear as to my thinking and motivations in bombing a government installation."
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