I move my lips when I read -- I'm painfully slow -- so I like really good English.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

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.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.