A committee is an animal with four back legs.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

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

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

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