There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

You should have died when I killed you.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.