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"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."
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?"
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"Non-technical questions sometimes don't have an answer at all."
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"But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat."
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"You guys ask really long questions. In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with."
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"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before."
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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."
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"No question about that, the radicals are in charge."
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"Someone once asked me what was the weirdest question I was ever asked. And I was stymied."
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"The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
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"When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties."
Change
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
American
"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."
Europe
"We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap."
Intelligence
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
People
"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."
Idea
"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
Intelligence
"My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited."
People
"I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment."
Law
"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."
Science
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