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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 Waste Time Negatives Respond Has-Been Investigation Part Policy Prove Been Nor Campaign Discredit Trying Which Many Each Waste

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

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

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

Know Vernon Testimony His Truthful Convinced

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

Conviction Defense Side State More Tend Individual Attorney Obtaining Client Always Opposed Than Much Interests Satisfaction Ever Received Sympathies

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

CIA Before Oswald Complete Complete Mystery Would About Remain Mystery Weeks Never Knew Particular Know Reached Message Contents Commission Six Interesting Certainly Warren Assassination

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice. Jim Mattis

Tough Times Tough Giving Giving Up Cowardice Military Consider Way Give Simply Know Another Another Way Up Times Just Forms Cynicism

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well! Jim Mattis

The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare. Jim Mattis

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops' hearts, not just their heads. Jim Mattis

I don't think the U.S. military is conservative. It's pragmatic. Jim Mattis

Conservative Military Think Pragmatic

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought. Jim Mattis

Faith Thought Country Lost Back More Rational Since Like Understand Foreign Foreign Country Coming Overseas Than America Places

Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act. Jim Mattis

You Enemies Out Immoral Some More Take Than Create Act

Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine. Jim Mattis

Enemy World Better Worse Demonstrate Friend Than Marine

Be the hunter, not the hunted. Jim Mattis

Hunted Hunter

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts. Jim Mattis

President Our Nuts See Allies Sitting

The economy's always been the engine for our national security. Jim Mattis

National Our Security Economy Always Been National Security Engine

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us. Jim Mattis

History You Become Nothing Starts About Read Us Aware

I'm on record that it didn't really traumatize me to do away with some people. Jim Mattis

Me People Some People Record Some Really Away

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want. Jim Mattis

You Behavior Reward Kind Must Want

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day. Jim Mattis

Day Political Positions State More Combined Remote Steroids Make Islamic Geography Lebanese Region Al Hardening Al-Qaeda Basically

Most people know nobody in the military. Jim Mattis

People Military Nobody Know Most

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty. Jim Mattis

You People Thought Some People Be True Sense Able Some Case Something Risk Uncertainty Higher True Feel Leads Comfortable Happen Then Much Aversion Your Need

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