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John Perkins Quotes
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didnt buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. - John Perkins Quotes
And thats why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change. - John Perkins Quotes
Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact weve been very successful. - John Perkins Quotes
But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing. - John Perkins Quotes
Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. - John Perkins Quotes
I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. - John Perkins Quotes
I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on. - John Perkins Quotes
I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nations largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. - John Perkins Quotes
I worked very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank provides most of the money thats used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F. - John Perkins Quotes
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. Its an empire. Theres no two ways about it. Its a huge empire. Its been extremely successful. - John Perkins Quotes
The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which weve done. - John Perkins Quotes
The only way that were going to feel secure in this country again and that were going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems weve put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that. - John Perkins Quotes
Theres no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country. - John Perkins Quotes
These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. - John Perkins Quotes
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that. - John Perkins Quotes
Weve built the largest empire in the history of the world. Its been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. Its only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. - John Perkins Quotes
When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. - John Perkins Quotes
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