Jack Kevorkian

“I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.”

“I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.”

“Fear controls you.”

“Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.”

“I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.”

“I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.”

“The law is cruel.”

“I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.”

“I'm not radical.”

“I'm not lying to myself like most people.”

“Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.”

“The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.”

“My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.”

“This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.”

“First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?”

“Many support what I am doing.”

“I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.”

“Let's hope you feel better now.”

“If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.”

“As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.”