“You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.” KnowsWantBalanceTaxesUnionsDemocratSpendingBudgetsSovietBalancedSoviet UnionRaising TaxesBalanced Budget Author:Tom DeLay
“I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty” IndividualStyleUniqueDefinitePersonal StyleUnique Beauty Author:Jae Hee
“Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.” FeelsMeanImportantAnxietyTechniqueConfessionConsistencyJustifiedInterrogationCoerceAnxiety And Fear Author:Aldrich Ames
“The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.” HeavyBetrayalCarrieTabooBetrayal Of Trust Author:Aldrich Ames
“An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.” InformationProductsOrganizationFinishedResolveMachineryCollectorsEspionageReliability Author:Aldrich Ames
“By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.” TermDealsLateCiaCharter Author:Aldrich Ames
“Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.” PersonsTasksCreditUncertain Author:Aldrich Ames
“Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.” KnowsGivingPersonsFindingsBetrayalEspionageBetrayal Of Trust Author:Aldrich Ames
“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.” GuyPartyWesternAgentsAgencyOfficialsMinistryVolunteerNerdIntelligence Agencies Author:Aldrich Ames
“Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.” LowsEuropeWesternArguingDebateHistorianSovietInvasionLikelihoodGdpWestern Europe Author:Aldrich Ames
