Quotes About Espionage

Oh, I can keep many secrets, so I would be a phenomenal secret agent. I love secrets.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to go around killing people. I don't think anyone should grow up wanting to be a secret agent.

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

Advanced nation-states are now using cyber power for unrestricted economic warfare and national security-motivated espionage, as well as a force multiplier and signaling instrument in conflicts.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

Trudeau claims he's wary about Chinese espionage, but also says there's nothing wrong with Chinese state-owned enterprises buying up as much of Canada's resource sector as it likes.

There is not now, nor I suspect will there ever be, a le Carre novel with ninjas in it. Most serious novelists are wary of including ninjas in their writing. That's a shame, because many much-admired works of modern fiction could benefit from a few.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

They were hard and fearless, and had to be enterprising and manipulative in order to survive. Espionage to them was a means to a better life. There was no ideology, morality, or religious belief involved.

Yardley's The American Black Chamber

I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.

I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.

'Madras Cafe' is set against the backdrop of the civil war in Sri Lanka in the 1990s.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

It was always more frightening when the purported spy was a suburban WASP, one of us. KGB agents in Willamette or Des Moines

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.