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?]
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.
People don’t randomly pick passwords, not even terrorist masterminds. They pick something personal.
If you pull your weapon to shoot, you shoot.
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.
Unstable governments are nothing more than the greatest of opportunities.
There is no version of this job that doesn’t require compromise, not if you want to do something that matters.
Sometimes you have to break a few rules just to get the job done.
