Liddy Quotes & Sayings

As there is no narrative, his poetry has been described as lyrical. As A. J. Smith observes, 'The most directly influential body of lyric poetry in European literature Il Canzoniere of Petrarch consists of some three hundred and eighty sonnets, madrigals and canzoni, sensitively registering every nuance of the poet's forty-seven-year devotion to one Laura. — Brenda Liddy

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

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

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

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

The difference between love and respect was markedly shown in her conduct. Bathsheba had spoken of her interest in Boldwood with the greatest freedom to Liddy, but she only communed with her own heart concerning Troy. — Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face. — Carl Bernstein

I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have. — Ana Gasteyer

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

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

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

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

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