Counterespionage Quotes & Sayings

Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage. — Charles McCarry

Hitherto acceptable norms of human conduct do not apply. If the United States is to survive, long-standing American concepts of 'fair play' must be reconsidered. We must develop effective espionage and counterespionage services and must learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more sophisticated, and more effective methods than those used against us. It may become necessary that the American people be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy. — Jimmy Doolittle

She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent. — Robin McKinley

Britain's counterespionage officers saw signs of treachery in everything Ivor Montagu did: they saw it in his friends, his appearance, his opinions, and his behavior. But above all, they saw it in his passionate, and dubious, love of table tennis. — Ben Macintyre

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry. — J. Tillman

Baseball is not a grind for me. — Steve Finley

There's never really been a tradition of making films about Jewish themes or using Judaism as a constant. — James Gray

Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to. — Kristy Hinze

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim ... — Alonzo Bodden

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. — Aldrich Ames