Assassination Quotes

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

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.

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

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

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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.

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.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

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

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

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

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

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.

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

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.