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"I guess I've been accused of everything that has happened, except the kidnapping of the Lindbergh child last spring. It ain't the names that they call me that makes me sore. I may be an alley rat or a skunk, or even worse, but that don't give them right to tell that kid Dempsey that he would never amount to anything as long as he had a father like me. That kid can't help who his father is or what he does, but he does think the world of me and I'm sure he's
all right too."
- "Pretty Boy" Floyd
"Charles has not done one-thousandth of the crimes he has been accused of."
- Mamie Floyd, Floyd's mother
"When Dillinger was romanticized in the newspapers of the day, 'Pretty Boy' got the worst press of any outlaw in the 1930s, and for a crime - the Kansas City Massacre - many believe he never committed."
- author Jay Robert Nash
"Like the famed marauder of the English forests, he (Floyd) took money from those who had it - the banks - and divided the proceeds with the poor. The penniless tenant farmers kept their mouths shut; they had no scruples about taking contraband wrested from bankers."
- Vivan Brown, writing in the Oklahoma Times
"He was as yellow as Dillinger. There never was a rat that was really brave. Of course any rat will fight when cornered, but with an even break they will run first. That was the way it
was with Floyd."
- J. Edgar Hoover
"He was a desperate man, this Floyd. But he was pretty pleasant to me all the time we were together. Floyd made no threats. He told me to do what he asked and we would get along all right. But I don't think any 10 men can capture him alive. We got to be plumb good friends."
- Missouri Sheriff Jack Killingsworth,
a Floyd kidnap victim
"My father never really wanted to kill anyone. It just came down to having to either kill or be killed. That's part of the
badness of crime."
- Floyd's son
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all right too."
- "Pretty Boy" Floyd
"Charles has not done one-thousandth of the crimes he has been accused of."
- Mamie Floyd, Floyd's mother
"When Dillinger was romanticized in the newspapers of the day, 'Pretty Boy' got the worst press of any outlaw in the 1930s, and for a crime - the Kansas City Massacre - many believe he never committed."
- author Jay Robert Nash
"Like the famed marauder of the English forests, he (Floyd) took money from those who had it - the banks - and divided the proceeds with the poor. The penniless tenant farmers kept their mouths shut; they had no scruples about taking contraband wrested from bankers."
- Vivan Brown, writing in the Oklahoma Times
"He was as yellow as Dillinger. There never was a rat that was really brave. Of course any rat will fight when cornered, but with an even break they will run first. That was the way it
was with Floyd."
- J. Edgar Hoover
"He was a desperate man, this Floyd. But he was pretty pleasant to me all the time we were together. Floyd made no threats. He told me to do what he asked and we would get along all right. But I don't think any 10 men can capture him alive. We got to be plumb good friends."
- Missouri Sheriff Jack Killingsworth,
a Floyd kidnap victim
"My father never really wanted to kill anyone. It just came down to having to either kill or be killed. That's part of the
badness of crime."
- Floyd's son
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