John Wayne Gacy Quotes

“It’s always the most patriotic asshole in the room that has absolutely no concept of what patriotism actually means.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“If the Constitution says one thing and our emotions say another, the Constitution should be followed rather than the emotion, every single time. It is that very Constitution that protects those rights that we like to call inalienable.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“Maybe we should stop putting pot smokers, prostitutes, and petty thieves in prison and leave some room for the John Wayne Gacys of the world. Enough said?”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“Suppose I just fucking rape you, you little fucking liar,” Gacy growled. “You said that you would do anything for money. You led me on! You lied to me!”
― Sam L. Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“There are two reasons that will cause good men to abandon their long-standing, dearly held morals, values, and principles and revert to more primitive, barbaric practices to resolve conflict. That is when their hearts are filled with anger or when their hearts are filled with fear.”
― Sam L. Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“A couple of months ago,” he said, removing his glasses once again, “a group of prosecutors from another country came and couldn’t understand how in the United States you could try a person who was arrested of this type of situation. A lot has been said about how much this case has cost, and I don’t know what it cost. I don’t know if anyone could put together the cost, but whatever the cost was, it’s a small price. My voice is cracking because I really truly feel it’s a small price that we paid for our freedom. What we do for the John Gacys, we’ll do for everyone. I thank you. You are now excused.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“Too often, when a defense attorney wins a case on constitutional grounds, it is offhandedly described in the press, and sometimes even by our society in general, as a “loophole.” This is always done so in the pejorative sense, as in, “That scumbag lawyer got his terrible criminal client off on a goddamned loophole. It’s a travesty of justice.” Unfortunately, this statement, this sentiment is completely ass-backward. When a defendant is convicted of a crime in spite of his or her constitutional protections, that is the loophole—that is the true travesty. Otherwise, why have a Constitution? Why don’t we just revert to mob rule, mob lynchings? Why is it so often accepted practice in the minds of some in this country that the police can break the law in their efforts to get the bad guy, as long as they get the bad guy? How silly is that, the police can break the law in order to arrest a person that broke the law? What?”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“It is very easy to speak abstractly in a bar or at a cocktail party about how tough one thinks the laws should be, but perhaps one should wait until they have actually been wrongfully accused to fully formulate that opinion. __________________”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“Officer: “Did you mention finding these wallets to Mr. Gacy?” Cram: “Yeah, I asked him if I could use the I.D. He said I was underage, so on and so forth, and, ah, to go out with my older partners to do drinking. He said, no, you don’t want those.” Officer: “Did he say why?” Cram: “He said ’cause they were some people that were deceased.” Officer: “Would you repeat that?”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“This low self-image was routinely and continuously reinforced by that domineering, uncompromising dad, a man who would routinely refer to his son a dumb and stupid sissy, a fag, a fruit picker, or worse.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“There he sat, implicated in the disappearance of a human being, under suspicion for perhaps kidnapping, abduction, or worse; and he was nonchalantly going on and on about his political connections.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“Maybe we should stop putting pot smokers, prostitutes, and petty thieves in prison and leave some room for the John Wayne Gacys of the world.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“that’s America. You have an inalienable right to be a nut, even an asshole.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“It’s funny, the people that wrap themselves most snugly in the American flag, the ones that scream the loudest about their freedoms and their constitutional rights are often the very people that lose sight of the meaning of all of that wonderful rhetoric as soon as push comes to shove, as soon as the precepts that we as a people so cherish come to be tested.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

“People can do terrible things without being terrible people.”
― Sam Amirante, John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster