Greg Abbott Quotes

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

He [John Le Carré] really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

Secret courts making secret rulings on secret laws, and companies flagrantly lying to consumers about the insecurity of their products and services, undermine the very foundations of our society.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

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

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how they talk. Whenever we had a debate in the office on how to handle crimes, they do not defend due process - they defend decisive action. They say it is better to kick someone out of a plane than let these people have a day in court. It is an authoritarian mindset in general.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Bulk collection means all of your communications are being secretly intercepted. They are being stolen as they cross India, and they're being stored in these silos so that they can be rifled through at the convenience of secret agents, basically.

This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.