"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed"

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"

"Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people... have to walk out of the shadows"

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value"

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it"

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder"

"We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might"

"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens"