Quotes from George Crile

On every front, the CIA was turning its guerrillas into a far smarter and more lethal fighting force.

But the terrible truth is that the group of sleeping lions that the United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs.

Moderation in the pursuit of liberty is no virtue;

I do," he remembers the matronly lady saying. "You haven't missed much. She's such a greedy cunt." Wilson says he had a hard time keeping himself from spitting the soup out on the table. When he recovered, he said in his most courtly manner, "Baroness, I think you and I are going to have a lovely evening.

United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs.

it is our sacred duty to make valuable the lives that these people are laying down.

What Avrakotos says he found particularly distasteful about the British spies were "the fucking teas. Can you believe it, they interrupted meetings every day at three-thirty or four for tea and cookies.

Juchniewicz silenced Cogan with a communiqué of unusual clarity: "Higher authority wants a mean fucker in the job.