Ana Patricia Botin Quotes

I grew up with 'The Denver Post' and the 'Golden Transcript.' There was never a moment that I thought I'd work at the 'New York Times.' My goal, starting out, was just to see if I could be a journalist.

What I really found was that the one similarity between 'Covert Affairs' and 'Fair Game' is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

There are few archbishops in espionage. He's on our side and that's all that matters. Besides, one needn't ask him to one's club.

I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I always liked spy stories.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

I've always thought of myself as a journalist; that was what I did.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

I was the British spy who had come out of the woodwork and told it how it really was, and anything I said to the contrary only enforced the myth. And since I was writing for a public hooked on Bond and desperate for the antidote, the myth stuck.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

I expected to go into journalism or law.