Michael Cohen

“Be kind to people, be ruthless to systems.”
― Michael Brooks

“On August 21, Robert Kennedy asked McCone if the CIA could stage a phony attack on the American military base at Guantánamo Bay as a pretext for an American invasion of Cuba. McCone demurred.”
― Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

“John F. Kennedy publicly proclaimed—in a November 1961 interview with Khrushchev’s son-in-law, the editor of Izvestia—that “the United States supports the idea that every people shall have the right to make a free choice as to the kind of government they want.” Cheddi Jagan might be “a Marxist,” he said, “but the United States doesn’t object, because that choice was made by an honest election, which he won.” But Kennedy decided to use the CIA to depose him.”
― Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night