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Quotes by Criminal

"I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy."

"Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career."

"I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid."

"I pretended I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home and no one hit me."

"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."

"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"


"I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do."

"I ain't got no magical powers and mystical trips and all that kind of crap. It's kind of silly."

"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."

"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."

"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."


"Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option."

"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."

"My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly."

"Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that."

"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."


"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."

"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."

"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."

"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."

"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,

"I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want."

"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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