Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American lawyer G. Gordon Liddy.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
George Gordon Battle Liddy was an American lawyer, FBI agent, talk show host, actor, and convicted felon in the Watergate scandal as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit during the Nixon administration. Liddy was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the scandal.
I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
I became what I wanted to be.
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
I don't fear anything now.
I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!
Once you start a war, you have to win.
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.
If you're not a target, you're a failure.
My last fear, the fear of God, died with my faith.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.
Three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead.
You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them
If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head.