I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

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

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.