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

- Bernhard Goetz

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

- Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

- Bernhard Goetz

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

- Bernhard Goetz

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

- Bernhard Goetz

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.

- Bernhard Goetz

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…

- Bernhard Goetz

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

- Bernhard Goetz

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.

- Bernhard Goetz