Activity Quote by Clive Ponting

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I…

— Nelson DeMille

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

— Shelagh Delaney

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

— Julian Assange

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

— John Updike

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

“Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine.”

— Khalid Muhammad

I've long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can…

— James Clapper

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

— Christopher Lee

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and…

— Will Hurd

“Under Cheney’s direction, the United States moved to restore the powers of secret intelligence that had flourished for fifty-five years under J. Edgar Hoover.…

— Tim Weiner

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that…

— Aldrich Ames