Jim Garrison

“The assassination was a coup d'etat.”

“The Central Intelligence Agency is not, as its name would suggest, an agency for gathering intelligence.”

“We're going to prove that there was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy and that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone assassin.”

“My staff and I solved the case. We did it. We proved it was a conspiracy.”

“The Warren Commission was a fraud from the very beginning.”

“Let justice be done though the heavens fall.”

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

“I suggest that the real conspiracy is the one that has been going on since the day of the assassination, a conspiracy of silence.”

“The question of who killed the president is not as important as what killed the president.”

“We have now reached a point where the secret government is more powerful than the elected government.”

“We have a warfare state, and some people are getting very, very rich from it.”

“What a strange thing to happen to a country, that its government should be taken over by its own intelligence agency.”

“This is a case in which the government has lied to the American people... and the press has been a willing party to that lie.”