If you pull your weapon to shoot, you shoot.
Never move anything into an office you can’t carry out in one box.
It’s better to be on the inside, maybe be able to change something, than be on the outside and not be able to change anything.[Sandrine Arnaud: How could you be in the CIA, knowing everything your government does?]
A man does not preside over his successes. Just his failures.
When you work behind a desk, your friends don’t get killed. They don’t get captured. They don’t go down in helicopters. But it’s the work, it’s the real work that still needs to get done.
Sometimes you have to break a few rules just to get the job done.
You got to go with your gut, that’s all you got. Sometimes it doesn’t work out. That’s the job.
This business isn’t about trust, it’s about intelligence.
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The man at the top can trust no one. Everyone else needs allies.[to Alexei]
People don’t randomly pick passwords, not even terrorist masterminds. They pick something personal.
No matter how hard I try, no matter how many protocols I break, I will never have the real power in this government.[to Senator Henshaw]
With all respect, this isn’t the first time I wasn’t in Moscow.[Leonid Surikov: The peace between our nations is a fragile one. For the sake of preserving it, you were never here. Understood?]