Gordon Liddy citations

George Gordon Battle Liddy, né en 1930, était le chef opérationnel de l'équipe des « plombiers », espions cambrioleurs financés par l'administration de Richard Nixon. Avec Howard Hunt, il organise le cambriolage du siège du Parti démocrate en juin 1972, pour y placer un système d'écoutes, point de départ du scandale du Watergate. Wikipedia  

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“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.”

As quoted in "The Best Of The Rest: 20 More Quotes About Liberals" at Right Wing News (24 November 2010) http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-best-of-the-rest-20-more-quotes-about-liberals/

“Suffering. That was the key.”

Liddy, G. Gordon, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy (St. Martin's Press 1980), pg. 12 https://books.google.com/books?id=YRty_4HT_8kC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=liddy+Suffering.+That+was+the+key&source=bl&ots=RZK5OAAlFM&sig=xc-5y539aH5ERGbwmGwvfi-I0wY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidzYmrg5jeAhWxHTQIHf5_DoIQ6AEwBHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=liddy%20Suffering.%20That%20was%20the%20key&f=false, describing his epiphany about how to conquer fear.
Compare the fictional reply, attributed to Liddy in All the President's Men (1976), when asked how he could keep his hand over a lit candle until his flesh seared: "The trick is not minding."

“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.”

Statements on his radio program (15 September 1994), as quoted in "Did MSNBC Know Liddy's History?" at FAIR (29 April 2005)

“Obviously, crime pays, or there'd be no crime.”

As quoted in "Does Crime Pay" in The Scandal Annual (1987) by the Paragon Project, p. 7

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