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Quotes About Assassination

involved. For the sake of Dallas it would be a good thing to present the assassination as solved to the press of the world.
~ Jim Bishop
headquarters said that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably a communist. He had spent years in Russia;
~ Jim Bishop
He has not been arraigned on the assassination?" "No." "Have there been ballistic tests made locally on the gun?" "No, sir.
~ Jim Bishop
I think we have sufficient evidence." "Sufficient evidence to convince—to convict him of the assassination of the President?" "Definitely. Definitely.
~ Jim Bishop
One week later Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. By then I had lost interest in that sort of thing.
~ Annie Ernaux
Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.
~ Nicholas Kristof
There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people consider Lincoln our greatest president ever and the fact that he was also a man assassinated at the age of 56 and had a widow with mental problems is what makes it all so fascinating.
~ Michael Beschloss
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.
~ Asif Ali Zardari
To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
~ Jim Garrison
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
~ Adolf Hitler
The world has devolved into a much more hardened and lethal place since that devastating September morning when Islamists assassinated nearly 3,000 Americans in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil.
~ Pete Hoekstra
I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.
~ Peter Bergen
One through the heart, one through the head. Then you know he's really dead.
~ Robert Muchamore
At least now I know what I only intuited before: there's a hired killer after every publisher. This killer may be distinguished, he may be illiterate, but he's in the pay of the darkest interests. And sometimes-oh, the cosmic irony-those interests, so vain and foolish, are our own.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people
~ Robin Hobb
A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.
~ Robin Hobb
Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You bastards are on the top of Imperial Lord Auditor Miles Vorkosigan's very own shit list now, you bet. But under what name? Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I don't suppose you could have picked some more public way to self-destruct? Attempted to assassinate the Emperor with your pocketknife during the Birthday Review, say, or raped a sheep in the Great Square during rush hour?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Nathuram Godse. "Thank God," Amina burst out, "it's not a Muslim name!
~ Salman Rushdie
but I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.
~ Alexandre Dumas
cómo cree que en política haya asesinatos? En política, querido mío, y vos lo sabéis tan bien como yo, no hay hombres, sino ideas; no sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino se allana un obstáculo.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman