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.

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

All power corrupts but some must govern.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

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.