Jim Garrison Quotes

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
Jim Garrison

Experience, America, Afraid

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
Jim Garrison

Money, Travel, Lie

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.
Jim Garrison

Heart, Moment, American

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
Jim Garrison

Before, Knew, Mystery

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
Jim Garrison

Faith, Ignorance, Until

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
Jim Garrison

Power, Law, Country

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the defensive and make us waste valuable time answering allegations that have no basis in fact.
Jim Garrison

Time, Made, Place

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.
Jim Garrison

State, Individual, Side

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?
Jim Garrison

Morning, Sleep, Night

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
Jim Garrison

Truthful, Convinced, Testimony

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
Jim Garrison

Business, Anybody

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
Jim Garrison

Time, Trying, Nor

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
Jim Garrison

Important, Why, Jack

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
Jim Garrison

Heard, Evidence, Conspiracy

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.
Jim Garrison

Long, Hard, Before

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute such motives to another man is to imply you're harboring them yourself.
Jim Garrison

Good, Yourself, Another

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Jim Garrison

Truth, Fire, Become

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: November 20, 1921

Died: October 21, 1992

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