Pastoral Resources

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.