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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?"

"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."

"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."

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."

"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."

"I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime."

"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."

"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."

"Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences."

"This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September."
June,

"I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place."

"It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her."

"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."

"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution."

"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."

"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."


"I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me."

"I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die."

"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."

"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."

"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."


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

"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."

"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."

"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."

"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."

"I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them."


"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."
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