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“It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.”

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Author:Peter O'Toole

“I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.”

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Author:Sean Young

“Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.”

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Author:Eric Alterman

“If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

Ifs Wish Terrorist Plot Say Anything Assassination

Book:If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

Source: If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans

“The Kennedy assassination has demonstrated that most of the major events of world significance are masterfully planned and orchestrated by an elite coterie of enormously powerful people who are not of one nation, one ethnic grouping, or one over-ridingly important business group. They are a power unto themselves for whom those others work. Neither is this power elite of recent origin. Its roots go deep into the past.”

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Author:L. Fletcher Prouty

“In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy of assassination.”

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Author:John Diefenbaker

“The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and Rupert Murdoch's media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.”

“The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.”

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Author:Daniel Craig

“The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.”

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Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”

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Author:Eric Ambler

“I know something of the good of Moammar Gadhafi that made me to love him as a brother and to feel a great sense of loss at his assassination... Gadhafi died in honor, fighting for the Libya that he believed in.”

Knows Feels Made Fighting Loss Brother Honor Died Assassination Libya

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”

“In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.”

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Author:Michael Beschloss

“A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.”

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Author:Guy Fawkes

“The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.”

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Author:Benjamin Tucker

“When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy”

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Author:Jack Ruby

“If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”

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Author:Fidel Castro

“To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.”

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Author:Michael Ignatieff

“I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.”

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Author:Andrew Johnson

“The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a good murder; they pray that assassinations, wars, catastrophes break on their editions.”

Knows Long War Rooms Cities Break Praying Murder Excitement Catastrophe Assassination Pumps

Author:Pete Hamill

“Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.”

Thinking Important Moments Moving Rights Movement Kings Trade Unions Civil Rights Acknowledge Drs Civil Rights Movement Assassination Trade Unions Civil Right Movement

Author:Angela Davis

“In 1975 a Senate committee headed by Frank Church found that the [Central Intelligence] Agency had planned a number of assassination operations, using everything from poison to machine guns and sometimes mob hit men”

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Author:Jim Garrison

“If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!”

“We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.”

Would Be Answers Pay Violence Worst Kings Tribute Assassination

Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.”

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Author:Louis Stokes

“A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations and the sense that the political establishment was so fixed in its ways you couldn't change anything.”

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Author:David Talbot

“Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.”

May Country Character Winning Risk Hero Honor Easier Victim Deeds Commit Propaganda Assault Assassination Assassins Character Assassination

Author:Alan Barth

“I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.”

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Author:Pierre Salinger

“I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.”

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Author:Eugene V. Debs

“It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.”

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Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a central bank in every country in the world, which they have now done, thanks to corrupt politicians who have been bought and paid for. This is all you need to know about the history of the world.”

Knows World Needs Has Beens War Country Done Problem Politician Paid International Disaster Thanks Conspiracy World History Bankers Assassination Central Banks

Author:Mary Elizabeth Croft

“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state”

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Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.”

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Author:Edward VII

“I was driving home the other night, listening to the radio, and the guy filling in for Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM was talking to some other guy about Nazis, UFOs, the Kennedy Assassination, time travel, and George Bush, and how it all relates to OneWorldGovernment. This, of course, made me think about barbell training.”

“Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.”

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Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“I wish to note that the level of discourse in Nigeria is abysmally low, and, usually, garnished with character assassination. We allow our personal frustrations to becloud reason”

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Author:Dele Momodu

“Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would all immediately confess to it. Whereas you'll never see a cat display any kind of guilty behavior, despite the fact that several cats were seen in Dallas on the grassy knoll area, not that I wish to start rumors.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.”

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Author:Sarah Vowell

“So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.”

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Book:Be of Good Cheer

Source: Be of Good Cheer

“Five hours after presenting a ...lecture on cancer before an audience of about 400 in L.A., the windshield was shot out of my car on the road back to San Francisco. The next night the glass window in the tailgate (the back window) was shot out (300 miles removed from the first shooting)...The late Arthur T. Harris, MD, was threatened by two men with assassination if he continued to use Laetrile.”

“We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.”

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Author:Emanuel Celler

“We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.”

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Author:Ismail Haniyeh

“I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!”

Source: Be of Good Cheer

“For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.”