There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself.

I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.