Patty Hearst

I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

— Patty Hearst

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.

— Patty Hearst

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would…

— Patty Hearst

Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me.

— Patty Hearst

Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons…

— Patty Hearst

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

— Patty Hearst

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and…

— Patty Hearst

I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.

— Patty Hearst

You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It…

— Patty Hearst

You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not…

— Patty Hearst

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their…

— Patty Hearst

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of,…

— Patty Hearst

Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized,…

— Patty Hearst

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

— Patty Hearst

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

— Patty Hearst

I do remember that I was very relieved that I did not have to go into a bank with them. I had,…

— Patty Hearst

There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not…

— Patty Hearst

They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells…

— Patty Hearst

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

— Patty Hearst

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote…

— Patty Hearst

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and…

— Patty Hearst

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to…

— Patty Hearst

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you…

— Patty Hearst

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't…

— Patty Hearst

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I…

— Patty Hearst