Criminal Quotes: Words from the Notorious and Infamous (Page 2)

"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"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"Now I know why tigers eat their young"

Al Capone, Criminal

"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"What luck for rulers that men do not think"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries"

Adolf Hitler, Criminal

"A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light"

Henry Morgan, Criminal

"I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear"

Pol Pot, Criminal

"There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

"No one is entitled to the truth"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two"

Caryl Chessman, Criminal

"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"

Cole Younger, Criminal

"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"

Cole Younger, Criminal

"Tell mother I die for my country"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"I'm not a gangster, I'm a businessman. And businessmen don't kill each other"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

"My main concern is if this composer has been made aware of the fact that I've come clean in all of my cases. I killed in pure hate, robbing along the way. So if this person hasn't, then I'd sure appreciate it if someone would inform him or her of it"

Aileen Wuornos, Criminal

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

Mark David Chapman, Criminal

"OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal"

John Dillinger, Criminal

"So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God"

Warren Jeffs, Criminal

"The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it"

Guy Burgess, Criminal

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