It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
The terrorists are going to believe the worst about America. They think we spy on everything. They think we kill everyone. They think - they don't believe that we believe in democracy, right? They don't believe we have limits on our government.
If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
It is ten thousand times cheaper to pay the best spies lavishly than even a tiny army poorly.
We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.
For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance: And when the folk there spy me, They will all come up to me, With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” And dance like a wave of the sea.
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.
I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.
Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.
. . . we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.
Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
He always wants to expand every one's rights: illegal aliens, terrorists, Russian spies, except American citizens.
Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.
All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave. . . while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics. . . . Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.