Vincent Bugliosi Quotes

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

My only master, my only mistress are the facts and the evidence. So if I reach a conclusion, it's only because the evidence took me there.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

I may have implied on several occasions to several different people that I may have been Jesus Christ, but I haven't decided yet what I am or who I am.

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

This is America, not a banana republic.

To form a strong opinion, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. You have to have access to all the relevant information. You gotta be literally an expert.

These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

Look at what's in front of you, not what you've been told or what you expect or what you want to see.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.

I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.

My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

There's no immortality of the soul that you can infer from the Bible.

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted.

I only form an opinion when I feel that I've done sufficient research and have sufficient access to information.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

When your blood is found at the murder scene, that's the end of the ball game, there's nothing more to say.

The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

You don't know what I'm going to say until I say it and that's because I'm only looking at the facts and the evidence.

When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.