14 quotes found
“He had to grow his own NCOs.”
“A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.”
“The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.”
“Not every story started off big enough to notice.”
“Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.”
“It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.”
“You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.”
“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”
“Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.”
“A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.”
“The media "could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.”
“How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.”
“He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.”
“They loved their country largely because they controlled it.”