--- title: "4 Mark Riebling Quotes - Famous Essayist" description: "American writer... | Mark Riebling is an American author. He has written two books: Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA and Church of Spies: T..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-mark-riebling-70005.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Mark Riebling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-mark-riebling-70005.jpg) # Mark Riebling (1963) Essayist **4** quotes in **80** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Mark Riebling is an essayist. ## Quick Facts About Mark Riebling Born January 1, 1963 Profession Essayist ## About Mark Riebling American writer... \| Mark Riebling is an American author. He has written two books: Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA and Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler. ## Quotes by Mark Riebling > [Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-riebling/consider-the-death-of-princess-diana-this-accident-involved-an/) [Mark Riebling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-riebling/) [Accident](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accident/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/146/mark-riebling-70005_accidents_consider-the-death-of-princess-diana-thi_597055.jpg) > [Winston Churchill led the life that many men would love to live. He survived 50 gunfights and drank 20,000 bottles of champagne.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-riebling/winston-churchill-led-the-life-that-many-men-would-love-to-live-he/) [Mark Riebling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-riebling/) [Bottles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bottles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/mark-riebling-70005_bottles_winston-churchill-led-the-life-that-many_882606.jpg) > [Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-riebling/every-time-the-secretary-of-defense-tries-to-get-a-hand-on-his-many/) [Mark Riebling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-riebling/) [Behinds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behinds/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70f/mark-riebling-70005_behinds_every-time-the-secretary-of-defense-trie_2441555.jpg) > [The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-riebling/the-military-mind-tends-to-be-conservative-realistic-and-historical/) [Mark Riebling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-riebling/) [Civilian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civilian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b4/mark-riebling-70005_civilian_the-military-mind-tends-to-be-conservati_3231577.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-riebling/#itemlist", "name": "Mark Riebling Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Consider the death of Princess Diana. 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