— Hermann GöringContext: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now!  It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito.  I turn green and yellow with envy.  The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again.  What do you make of that?  There is nothing the British do not have.  They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops.  After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked. 
This statement was attributed to Goering in at least one book on World War II, but it was removed from the English Wikipedia page on him on grounds that it was not actually verified that Goering had ever said it. 

— Hermann GöringContext: Now you see.  You are even turning the Fuehrer against me.  Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet! 
Exclamation made by Göring in November 1938, soon after Kristallnacht.  He returned from a day of dealing with the aftermath of the vandalism and looting to find his wife Emmy asking him to help Jewish friends of hers yet again, and the following day, received a note from Hitler, indicating this assistance must stop.  As quoted in The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering (1974) by Leonard Mosley, p. 229. 

— Hermann GöringContext: In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now!  It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito.  I turn green and yellow with envy.  The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again.  What do you make of that?  There is nothing the British do not have.  They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops.  After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set – then at least I'll own something that has always worked. 
This statement was attributed to Goering in at least one book on World War II, but it was removed from the English Wikipedia page on him on grounds that it was not actually verified that Goering had ever said it. 

— Hermann GöringContext: p> Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war.  Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?  Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany.  That is understood.  But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Gilbert: There is one difference.  In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  That is easy.  All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.  It works the same way in any country.</p
In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp

— Hermann GöringContext: p> Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war.  Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?  Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany.  That is understood.  But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Gilbert: There is one difference.  In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.  That is easy.  All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.  It works the same way in any country.</p
In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp

— Hermann GöringSaid by Goering to the President of Czechoslovakia Emile Hácha on March 15, 1939, when Hácha, tired and under heavy pressure from Hitler to sign a document effectively handing his country over to Germany, nonetheless tried to resist signing.  Hácha eventually gave up, and the combined pressure that Hitler and Goering had put on him caused Hácha to have a heart attack at 4:00 that morning.  As quoted in On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began (1969) by Leonard Mosley, p. 167. 

— Hermann GöringStatement (18 March 1946) Cross Examination of Hermann Goering "Eighty-Fourth Day, Monday, 3/18/1946, Part 16" http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/Goering1.html in Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol.  IX.  Proceedings: 3/8/1946-3/23/1946 (1947)