John Perkins Quotes

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• I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
• The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
• The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we…
• No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken environment, an economy that only…
• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some…
• But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a…
• Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
• I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
• These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just…
• This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people…
• When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately…
• And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic…
• And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is…
• Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible…
• I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least…
• So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of…
• The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we…
• The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which…
• There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of…
• We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very…

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