Fateha Abdullah

“But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying “Fake News,” the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: “You’re a fucking liar.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“At the age of nineteen, Gordievsky took up cross-country running. Something about the solitary nature of the sport appealed to him, the rhythm of intense exertion over a long period, in private competition with himself, testing his own limits.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

“With the possible exception of ancient Rome, no society has ever auditioned for the role of world policeman. Certainly the United States—at least through the end of the twentieth century—never desired that part. As for the UN, it has shown the ability to play world night watchman. It can monitor and raise the alarm, but it cannot guarantee that the alarm, once sounded, will be answered.”
― Madeleine Albright