Ambition Quote by George B. Cortelyou

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth.…

— John le Carre

“The Kealty administration had promised more “openness” and “transparency” in the clandestine CIA. Jack Junior’s father had written an op-ed in The Washington Post…

— Tom Clancy

“Simm watched the hanging with disgust. Why would the young man pretend to be a spy when he had no skills and no natural…

— Dory Codington

“Equally nonsensical was the notion that Snowden would try to save himself by giving away surveillance secrets. He had dismantled his life and risked…

— Glenn Greenwald

The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of…

— Howard Dean

Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

— Annie Jacobsen

It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA…

— Sarah Weinman

If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely…

— Peter Singer

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage.…

— James Sanborn

In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd…

— Anthony Horowitz