Vincent Bugliosi famous quotes

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Common Sense #Way #Life Is

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Florida #Law #People

This is America, not a banana republic.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#America #Republic #Bananas

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Doors #Religion #Doubt

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Life #Winning #Opponents

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Writing #Views #Trials

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Objectivity #Mistress #Facts

If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Independent #Order #Guilt

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Believe #Absence #Conspiracy

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Silly #Ruling #Cases

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Betrayal #America #Hands

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Betrayal #Organization #America

You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Agreement #Support #Might

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Love Yourself #Party #America

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Book #Political #Loser

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Florida #Decision #Said

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Hands #Florida #Want

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Lawyer #Fine

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Successful #Trials #Court

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Beautiful #Eye #Men

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Religious #Reality #Thinking

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Wise #Men #People

I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Common Sense #Upset #World

I don't like mansions. They depress me. In fact, I even feel sorry for a rich husband and wife living in a forty-room mansion. They're obviously searching for something they don't have, such as happiness or the respect of others.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Depressing #Money #Sorry

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Life #Memories #Chinese

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Jesus #Who I Am #People

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Believe #Light #Shining

For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Betrayal #Justice #People

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Book #Objectivity #Mistress

The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Discovery #Nuts #Community

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Light #Waiting #Leaving

The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission. Nothing else has to be shown or even argued.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Stories #Six #Twenties

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Community #Levels #Conspiracy

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Country #Book #People

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Country #Views #Conservative

Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.
-- Vincent Bugliosi

#Agency #Fire #Political