Gordon Liddy Quotes & Sayings

Katie's mum, Penny, said "I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now."
And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. "He'll make mincemeat of you."
He won't," Katie protested. "I'm not going to fall for him."
So why are you bothering at all?"
Just killing time until I die. — Marian Keyes

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name. — Marshall McLuhan

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason. — G. Gordon Liddy

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. — G. Gordon Liddy

As a child, I was just never that interested in the lives of my favourite actors, like Cary Grant. I do wonder whether knowing too much about someone's personal life interrupts an audience's ability to suspend disbelief, to really invest in the characters. My preference would always be that people engage with the work. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake. — Stephen Graham Jones

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. — G. Gordon Liddy

If you're not a target, you're a failure. — G. Gordon Liddy

I became what I wanted to be. — G. Gordon Liddy

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's. — G. Gordon Liddy

Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life. — G. Gordon Liddy

The bombing in Oklahoma City has focused renewed attention on the rhetoric that's been coming from the right and those who cater to angry white men. Right-wing talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Oliver North, G. Gordon Liddy, Michael Reagan and others take to the air every day with basically the same format: Detail a problem, blame the government or a group and invite invective from like-minded people. Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden or encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue. — Bryant Gumbel

I have no choice but to face whatever my reality has become. — S.J. Watson

What I mean is that you should never initiate an aggressive act, but if one is initiated against you or another innocent person, you should respond in such a way that ensures that the aggressor is the one who regrets the encounter. — Abraham Thornton

If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head. — G. Gordon Liddy

That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
What you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it ?
Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody.
So don't be afraid. Be alive. — Sarah Dessen

We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter. — Jeff Cooper

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them — G. Gordon Liddy

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear. — G. Gordon Liddy

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong. — G. Gordon Liddy

Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead. — G. Gordon Liddy

As he stood there, the audience was forgotten. The past, with all its mistakes and suffering, its doubt and sin,
came before him for an instant, then vanished, and his heart leaped for joy, because he knew that it was gone
forever. And the future, made beautiful by the presence of Christ and the conviction that he was right with
God, stretched away as a path leading ever upward, until it was lost in the glories of the life to come, while he
heard, as in a dream, the words of his confessed Master, Follow: thou me. — Harold Bell Wright

The main job of radicals in the Noam Chomsky or G. Gordon Liddy mode is to go around from one scruffy lecture hall to another reminding audiences while they may be disdained or ignored by the mainstream culture, they are actually right about everything. — David Brooks

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman. — G. Gordon Liddy

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet. — G. Gordon Liddy

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy. — Steven Pinker

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays. — G. Gordon Liddy

I don't fear anything now. — G. Gordon Liddy

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Who knew what time it was when the door to my room opened and three G.I. Joe Wannabes motioned me out. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As a New Yorker you can't help but be proud of the fact that so much music and culture started here. Punk rock, jazz, hip-hop and house music started here, George Gershwin debuted 'Rhapsody in Blue' here; the Velvet Underground are from New York. — Moby

Once you start a war, you have to win. — G. Gordon Liddy

Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them. — G. Gordon Liddy

The trick is in not minding. — G. Gordon Liddy

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic. — Jeffrey Kluger

Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses? — G. Gordon Liddy

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. — G. Gordon Liddy

The music has turned into a distant hysterical pounding and shrieking, like someone has a tiny Rihanna locked in a box. — Tana French

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her. — G. Gordon Liddy

My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith. — G. Gordon Liddy

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail. — Andrew Vachss

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things. — G. Gordon Liddy

I'm virile, vigorous, and potent! — G. Gordon Liddy