Bernhard Goetz quotes:

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

I go to Union Square Park, mostly to take care of squirrels.

Prior to being mugged I did not feel I had to carry a gun. However, I knew how to shoot a gun very proficiently. As a boy, I used to play cowboys and Indians all the time.

I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basically wiped the floor with me on the street. He gave me a punch that I didn't even feel. All I knew I was looking up at the sky. I tried to fight him, and I got a number of injuries after that.

If you have love in your life, you have life.

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for an individual and a society.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.

Society is better off without certain people.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

I would, without any hesitation, shoot a violent criminal again.

When you are surrounded by four people, one of them smiling, taunting, demanding, terrorizing, you don't have a complete grasp or perfect vision.

I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.

India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

If you like affection, then about one in three squirrels makes an excellent companion.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

The whole trial seemed surreal.