Michel Temer Quotes

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

If a citizen who's committed many crimes, instead of going to prison would say something against me or another politician, or against any other well known person ... I don't want to be disrespectful to anybody but someone who's killed twenty people could easily tell a lie.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

I've been racketeered on.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.

Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

I'm really not good blackmail material.

When you play blackmail, you are asking for more blackmail.

… a blackmailer and psychopath.

People don’t willingly cooperate [with a prosecutor] unless you’ve got something to hold over their heads.

I'm not subject to extortion under any circumstances.

Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.

I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.

I know things about R. Kelly that I will take to my grave - unless he tells them.

Doctor, feel my purse.

Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.

I have experienced threats. Not just to me, but to my family.

The Qaddafis, father and sons, speak the grammar of dictatorship: threats and bribery.

For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.