The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.

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.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

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.

Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had a particular feeling for.

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

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.

She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it.

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.

I love cars, I have two classic cars of my own.

This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

On the red carpet, I can be different women with every event and change my style and that's funny because at the end of the day, that's my work as an actress.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her childhood.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history.