Quotation

Community quotations are the opinions of contributing users. These quotations do not represent the opinions of Skokie Public Library.
He had told them a couple of times that the old man wasn’t just an old man, like somebody’s uncle. He was old in the way a seven-foot rattlesnake was old. === We let a rogue agent who has killed five men this year disappear once again like a fart in a hurricane. === Our job isn’t to salvage some dismal screwup from a generation ago. It’s to move the ball forward a few yards today. Our job is about today. === Nobody in any intelligence organization had any particular attachment to the truth. The truth was just one of many versions that was not necessarily superior to any of the other versions. === If the (news)papers don’t already have the story, they don’t get it. If they have the story, they’re asked not to print it.