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Quotes by Criminal
"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
42
"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."
42
"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
41
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
41
"I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me."
41
"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
41
"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."
41
"There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance."
41
"Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going."
41
"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise."
40
"Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort."
40
"I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal."
40
"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."
40
"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
40
"I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them."
40
"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."
40
"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."
39
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
39
"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."
39
"In general, I do not agree with spying against one's country."
39
"First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that."
38
"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."
38
"I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change."
38
"In the same circumstances, I know that I would do the same thing again."
38
"So for you people who are filled with fear that I might someday be released: breathe easy, I don't see it happening."
38
"We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns."
38
"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."
37
"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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