Affair Quote by Jeffrey Donovan

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

— Aaron Eckhart

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to…

— Aldrich Ames

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

— Shelagh Delaney

SECRET is not a mystery, it is analization.

— Seiji Kaneko

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

— Ally Carter

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required…

— Benjamin Wittes

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

— Julian Assange

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

— William Stephenson

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not…

— Noam Chomsky

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

— Peter Bergen