The best leaks always take place in the urinal.

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

— Edward Snowden

“Havens turned again. Someone else passed between the trucks. That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens…

— J.T. Patten

There are serious and legitimate concerns about academic espionage at our universities.

— Mikie Sherrill

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the…

— Nadeem Aslam

“Langley bred a certain type of person with great intention. The human resources department required nearly as sophisticated of analysts as the foreign intelligence…

— Lynn Blackmar

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were…

— Vladimir Semichastny

“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't…

— John le Carré

“The Intelligence Services of East and West have given Europe over fifty years of peace - the longest the Continent has ever known. They…

— Markus Wolf

“Believing in a conspiracy theory is one strategy people use to regain a sense of control, even if the conspiracy theory is unrelated to…

— Oscar Auliq-Ice Junior

The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber,…

— Edward Snowden

“espionage—against countries as diverse as Belgium, Japan, Brazil, and Germany—in stark terms:”

— Anonymous

“Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused…

— Jeff Phillips

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence…

— Anonymous

“The sensation was an explosion of feelings, leaving in its place a pleasured memory of that moment. That, thought Seth, was pure heaven”

— Kenneth Eade