Affair Quote by Frederick Forsyth

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

— Barry Goldwater

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take…

— John le Carre

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I…

— Hillary Clinton

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

— Wes Craven

“What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?”

— Thea Harrison

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get…

— Sun Tzu

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“I can basically go to prison or at least be prosecuted for what I have revealed to you about the PAN programme investigation. The…

— Jacques Pauw

“In Open Secrets an intelligence operator has for the first time offered an insight into the working of the prime intelligence organisation of India—the…

— Maloy Krishna Dhar

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

— John le Carre

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

— Julian Assange

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been…

— Jim Garrison