After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

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.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Elections are a Western jerk-off.

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.

A committee is an animal with four back legs.