Quote by Patrick Emmett

“Clifford Rutledge II was the perfect diplomat. He believed in little beyond his own career, some vague notions of international amity, and his personal…

— Tom Clancy

“Well, Colonel, there is diplomacy and there is reality. Our ambassador represents diplomacy. I represent reality. And the reality is we don't want you.”

— Stephen Kinzer

“I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am…

— Elizabeth Wein

“It didn't matter, because he was an employee of a criminal enterprise and I was an FBI consultant and, oh yeah, technically kidnapped and…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

“Detective Sergeant Jonathan Searle, a Cambridge-educated art historian who worked at Special Branch, the muscle behind British intelligence on national security and espionage.”

— Laney Salisbury

“He had a boyish enthusiasm for warfare and was delighted beyond words to be made a colonel in the Illinois National Guard without ever…

— Bill Bryson

“I joined the military because there is someone I have to protect.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

“We had become a country that valued security over freedom, power over justice, and war over peace. I wanted”

— Robert Kroese

“Special Circumstances had always been the Contact section’s moral espionage weapon, the very cutting edge of the Culture’s interfering diplomatic policy, the elite of…

— Iain M. Banks

“it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all. He”

— George Orwell

“I’ve always wanted to kill a CIA officer. With my own hands. I’ve dreamed of the day, wrapping my fingers around his throat, squeezing…

— Mark Greaney

“Captain Miller, we know that you are connected with military intelligence, and can obtain classified documents.”

— Karl Braungart