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

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Day

• We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Little

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Big, Few, System

• There’s 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Come, Mind

• The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia – new cities, new infrastructure – which we’ve done.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Done, Interest

• The only way that we’re going to feel secure in this country again and that we’re going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we’ve put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Positive, Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Believe

• 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. It’s an empire. There’s no two ways about it. It’s a huge empire. It’s been extremely successful.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Two, Back, Successful

• I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Back, School

• I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, s*x, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Strong

• Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Roosevelt, Trouble

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Change, Men

• And that’s 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

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Change, Book

• And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn’t buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Successful, Same

• 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

  Topics in History, Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Through

• 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 we’ve been very successful.

  John Perkins

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Men, Successful

John Perkins (15)

Birth:	28th January, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

John Perkins was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. He is an American author and peace activist. His best known book is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. This book spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been published in at least 32 languages, and is used in many college and university programs. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Boston University in 1968. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador from 1968 to 1970. He is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations devoted to promoting environmentally sustainable and socially just societies. He has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, and more than 50 universities around the world. He has written other books include: The Stress-Free Habit, The World Is As You Dream It, Shapeshifting, Psychonavigation, Spirit of the Shuar (with Shakaim Mariano Shakai Ijisam Chumpi), The Secret History of the American Empire, and Hoodwinked. He was awarded the Lennon Ono Grant for Peace 2012, and Rainforest Action Network Challenging Business As Usual Award, 2006.

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