Lyndon LaRouche

Lyndon LaRouche (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2019) was an American political activist, writer, and conspiracy theorist. He founded several political organizations in the United States and elsewhere, cumulatively referred to as the LaRouche movement. He was a perennial candidate for President of the United States, running eight times between 1976 and 2004.

Quotes

 * I resolved that no revolutionary movement was going to be brought into being in the USA unless I brought it into being.
 * Quoted in The Washington Post (February 17, 1974) under his pseudonym "Lyn Marcus".


 * The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings.
 * "Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites", in his political journal The Campaigner (May-June 1978), p. 64.


 * The objective of my life is to contribute to bringing men and women out of the wretched condition of sensuous donkeys and incompletely human 'silver souls' to contribute to making of our species a race of 'golden souls.'
 * The Power of Reason (1979)


 * According to a variety of very authoritative sources, Henry A. Kissinger is not a Jew, but a faggot. I will not tolerate any denial of civil rights to a person who happens to be homosexual. Ordinarily, a homosexual is like an ordinary person suffering the affliction of nasty boils; one recognizes the distinction between the person and the affliction.… Henry A. Kissinger is no ordinary, common, garden-variety of homosexual. His heathen sexual inclinations are merely an integral part of a larger evil.… Think of Nero, and then of Kissinger, and then of Nero, and then of Roy M. Cohn. That is the kind of faggot Henry Kissinger is.
 * "Kissinger, the Politics of Faggotry" (August 3, 1982)


 * During late Autumn 1956, in connection with a marketing study, I forecast the imminence of a major U.S. economic recession, triggered by the over-stretching of a post-1954 credit-bubble centered in financing of automobiles, housing, and analogous consumer goods. This recession broke out in February 1957 statistics, and was generally, if reluctantly acknowledged to have occurred several months later. The recession-spiral lasted into mid-1958, and was followed by a prolonged stagnation until an upturn appeared under the Kennedy administration.
 * "The Coming Disintegration of Financial Markets" (June 1994).


 * The presently existing global financial and monetary system will disintegrate during the near term. The collapse might occur this spring, or summer, or next autumn; it could come next year; it will almost certainly occur during President William Clinton's first term in office; it will occur soon. That collapse into disintegration is inevitable, because it could not be stopped now by anything but the politically improbable decision by leading governments to put the relevant financial and monetary institutions into bankruptcy reorganization.
 * "The Coming Disintegration of Financial Markets" (June 1994).


 * The record shows, that for nearly thirty years, elements of the U.S. Department of Justice have been engaged in world-wide political targeting of me and my associates. This includes early 1970s operations run in conjunction with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's U.S. State Department. During the last ten years or so of that period, some U.S. officials, and others, have challenged the relevant agencies with some of the evidence which shows, that those prosecutions and correlated harassment of me and my associates, had been clearly fraudulent, politically motivated targeting.
 * "Lyndon LaRouche: 'He's a Bad Guy, But We Can't Say Why'" (February 15, 2000).

Attributed

 * President Carter impresses me as a mean, slightly degenerate man whose wealth probably consisted, or spiritually at least, in two junked cars in his front yard. That's the kind of redneck degenerate a man who goes to an Allman Brothers rock concert, which is a drug nest, before going to teach his Sunday school sermons at a Southern Baptist school, that is Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is your all-around basic, ignorant, boorish scoundrel.… Jimmy Carter was somebody who Mr. Nice, David Rockefeller, put up there in the White House and he liked the job, with that dumb wife of his and his daughter who was his national security advisor.
 * Attributed by Dennis King as trial testimony in LaRouche v. NBC (1985).


 * [The Leesburg Garden Club is a] nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.
 * Quoted in Chicago Tribune (December 2, 1988) "Ex-Aide: LaRouche Extravagant" p. 13.