Gary Webb

“The government has its secrets, and it keeps them.”

“If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more arrogant, cocky reporter. I was a star, and I was good. Now I'm just a beaten man.”

“The story is not over. It’s never over.”

“That's the trap that they lay for you, is to get you so emotionally involved you forget that you're a reporter.”

“I was writing about the most powerful intelligence organization in the world. I knew they were going to come after me. I just didn't realize that my own profession was going to be the one to carry their water.”

“I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm a reporter.”

“Once you cross the line, you can't go back.”

“The official version of history is a fairy tale.”

“This is a story that is not going to die. It is going to live on. And someday, someone is going to get to the bottom of it.”

“It was a story that was going to change everything.”

“They destroyed my career, my reputation, my life.”

“I did not believe in conspiracies. I had no patience with people who did.”