Patty Hearst Quotes

• You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and – first of all, it was relief. I was not – there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.

  Patty Hearst

• You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

  Patty Hearst

• Well, you know, they were – they were a terrorist group. They – when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.

  Patty Hearst

• Well, you know, one lawyer says I’m the only witness and I’m not credible. Another lawyer says this witness – there’s tons of evidence that’s been available for years.

  Patty Hearst

• Well, you know, it’s really been, you know, quite a trip for me.

  Patty Hearst

• Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

  Patty Hearst

• They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country.

  Patty Hearst

• There is – you know, there’s receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I’m in a court.

  Patty Hearst

• There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I’m sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.

  Patty Hearst

• The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently.

  Patty Hearst

• My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

  Patty Hearst

• It’s hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

  Patty Hearst

• I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.

  Patty Hearst

• I think Charles Manson was a hair’s breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

  Patty Hearst

• I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

  Patty Hearst

• I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

  Patty Hearst

• I had not seen that until – and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.

  Patty Hearst

• I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

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• I frankly don’t think it’s going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can’t share information, there’s no way this war can be won.

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• I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.

  Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst (30)

Birth:	20th February, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, the third of five daughters of Randolph Apperson Hearst and Catherine Wood Campbell. She grew up primarily in Hillsborough. She attended Crystal Springs School for Girls in Hillsborough and the Santa Catalina School in Monterey. Among her few close friends she counted Patricia Tobin, whose family founded the Hibernia Bank, a branch of which Hearst would later aid in robbing.

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