Mark Fuhrman Quotes

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

Could it be that my indictment -- curiously issued two weeks before the Democratic National Convention -- is largely political?

The government’s prosecution of me was intent not on serving justice but on meeting out retaliation, reprisal and retribution for the purpose of relentlessly punishing a whistleblower and warning potential whistlebowers so that you can not only lose your job but also your very freedom.

It was the stupidest thing this country ever did. He was no more a Communist than I was, and we forced him to go.

I'm being treated like a criminal by the Polish government. It's just insane. I haven't done anything. What are they accusing me of?

The string of disqualification cases were filed against me when I was still contemplating a run for the presidency by people whose motives were suspect at best. Powerful groups with personal agenda are behind these cases. But I am not afraid. Not when the people are behind me.

When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they risk delegitimizing not just their systems of justice, but the legitimacy of the government itself. Because when they bring political charges against people for acts that were clearly at least intended to work in the public interest, they deny them the opportunity to mount a public-interest defense.

Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

Don't be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.

Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had taken the direction it had. What cosmic forces had led me to this precise moment that saw me, once again, dancing on the rim of the volcano? The answers started to come to me as my life flashed before my eyes. I think it all started when I was arrested as a pyromaniac.

You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Life is a solitude.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops - which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.