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THE APOLOGY FOR USING RACIAL EXPLETIVES:
"I'm apologizing from the bottom of my heart for creating pain where pain wasn't necessary. I don't know what else to do. ... It shouldn't be used. And I'm sorry to be the one to bring it to the forefront in such a grossly insensitive way."
ON THE MANY NAMES HE IS NOW CALLED:
"I think of all these things I am a felon. I know what I am. I'm not a racist. What they call me a liar for had nothing to do with the case about two people being hacked to death with a knife. Nothing."
ON PLANTING THE GLOVE:
"There was never a shred ... never a hint ... never a possibility ... not a remote ... not a million ... not a billion to one possibility I could have planted anything ... nor would I have a reason to. They say it was because I was a racist. I'm not a racist ... they listened to the tapes... It would take hours to show the impsossibility...improbability...I mean the millions to one chance that anybody could plant one piece of evidence, let alone 450 plus that points to only one suspect."
ON THE CONTROVERSIAL "FUHRMAN TAPES" AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORY:
"I was as ashamed listenin' to myself on those tapes as anybody was of any color. I never heard myself. I never remembered those tapes. I was trying to do a screenplay ... it was a misplaced effort ... and I did it the wrong way. I'm sorry for that. And not because I got caught on tape. Not because somebody that I thought as a friend and a co-worker at this project gave them up. I'm sorry I ever did them because it embarrasses me and I'm ashamed of that. But that doesn't mean I decided that I was gonna make this homicide an extension of some bizarre conspiracy ... that's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous."
ON USING RACIAL EXPLETIVES ON THE TAPES:
"When I heard my words on those tapes, I probably felt worse than anybody could feel. Not because I forgot about them; because I did them, for whatever reason. I'm not going to give you an excuse for doing them. There is no excuse. I hurt a lot of people."
ON ATTEMPTING TO CONTACT MARCIA CLARK AND CHRIS DARDEN WHEN HE HEARD THE TAPES WERE GOING TO BROUGHT INTO EVIDENCE:
"They wouldn't take my call. They wouldn't even talk to me."
ON HIS REPUTATION:
"I've had an autopsy done on me for two years ... personally, professionally ... and it's been grossly unfair. Nobody's reported by victories ... my accomplishments ... my true personality. The way I treat all people. At the police department ... tell people not to go on TV ... to discourage them ... some out and out ordered not to. The district attorneys that were told they can't go on TV ... They don't want to be attached to me. Not the people [or] the organizations"
ON CALLING ROBERT SHAPIRO A JEW IN A DEROGATORY MANNER:
"I was angry with Bob, and I've always been sorry I said that. He always treated me with respect."
ON MARCIA CLARK:
"I thought she was smarter than she turned out."
ON LEARNING OF THE VERDICT:
"I was shocked. I thought the night before ... with the short deliberation ... it was guilty. I have never seen a jury do that before. Pretty hard to deliberate four hours, but ... I was shocked. I was as shocked as anybody."
ON WHO IS HARDEST TO FACE NOW:
"I haven't faced them yet ... it would be Fred Goldman. And the Brown family. They lost. Much more than I did."
ON HIS CURRENT CONDITION:
"I spent two decades chasing felons, catching them, prosecuting them. Now, I'm a felon myself. You don't have to incarcerate somebody to put them in prison ... Twenty years catchin' felons ... now I am one."
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