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Quotes About Assassination

The shittrain began on November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas - when some twisted little geek blew the President's off... and then a year later, LBJ was re-elected as the Peace Candidate. Johnson did a lot of rotten things in those five bloody years, but when the history books are written he will emerge in his proper role as the man who caused an entire generation of Americans to lose all respect for the Presidency, the White House, the Army, and in fact the who structure of government.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The double 0 numerals signify an agent who has killed and who is privileged to kill on active service.
~ Ian Fleming
There was a sharp 'phut', no louder than a bubble of air escaping from a tube of toothpaste. No other noise at all, and suddenly Le Chiffre had grown another eye, a third eye on a level with the other two, right where the thick nose started to jut out below the forehead. It was a small black eye, without eyelashes or eyebrows.
~ Ian Fleming
The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and tragic and just strikes to the heart of our country. Here's the youngest president ever, full of hope and promise, and he made government service seem like it was dignified.
~ Richard Belzer
The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.
~ John Sherman Cooper
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
~ Candice Millard
When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!
~ Elizabeth Keckley
Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.
~ Gary Yourofsky
The truth will set you free...unless you want to know the truth about who killed JFK.
~ Richard Belzer
Assassinating someone is another way of saying I care, just not in the way they'd want you to.
~ Dov Davidoff
Odd, isn't it? After all, the Warren only appeared following the Emperor's assassination at Laseen's hand. Shadowthrone and his companion the Patron of Assassins – Cotillion – were unheard of before Kellanved and Dancer's deaths. It also seems that whatever . . . disagreement there is between House Shadow and Empress Laseen is, uhm, personal . . .
~ Steven Erikson
Though he'd never seen her, just her name on the hot, dry wind was enough to give him the shakes. Mage killer, the scorpion in the Imperial pocket.
~ Steven Erikson
I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is.
~ Steven Hatfill
A hit man's character is defined above all by narcissism, that complex mix of egotism and self-hatred.
~ Suketu Mehta
They needn't have worried. Three hundred men, it turned out, were not enough to massacre a man like Bussy.* The assassination attempt had not only failed, it backfired completely by adding to the warrior's renown.
~ Nancy Goldstone
The world was an awful place, too awful to live in, if people could kill a President so easily.
~ Cathie Pelletier
Had I been allowed to testify, I would have told them that there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the bullet that killed President Kennedy was shot from the grassy knoll area. I would have also informed the Warren Commission about the call I received from Lyndon Johnson while we were operating on Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson told me that a man in the operating room would get a deathbed confession from Oswald.
~ Charles A. Crenshaw
medical man who had seen Kennedy's body within minutes of the time the president was shot. Crenshaw
~ Charles A. Crenshaw
University.   J. Gary Shaw is a retired architect and a forty-five-plus-year researcher/critic of the JFK assassination investigation and conclusions. He is a former director of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas and the Assassination Archives and Research
~ Charles A. Crenshaw
Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.
~ William Lacy Clay, Jr.
And when Franz Ferdinand pays, everybody pays!
~ Thomas Pynchon
The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I know about the torture and assassination, Detective Galiano. That's why I'm in Guatemala.
~ Kathy Reichs
The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.
~ Ken MacLeod