"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been……" — John Perkins
"Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing."
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21 Quotes by John Perkins
John Perkins has 21 quotes on this site.
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I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.
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The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are
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The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less…
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No matter how many toys we amass we leave them behind when we die, just as we leave a broken…
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I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these -…
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But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what…
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I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money,…
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These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and…
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This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating,…
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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out…
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And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein…
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And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood…
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