In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.