The Director Quotes

“Three rules for when you are under fire:
1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens.
2) Always be the first to move; don't wait until the situation is clear, because by then it may be too late.
3) Keep moving until you find cover or your out of the fire zone.”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“Always be the first to move; don’t wait until the”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“Three Rules for When You Are Under Fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens.”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“situation is clear, because by then it may be too late. 3) Keep moving until you find cover or you’re out of the fire zone.”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently. —FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“Reading the stories was like trying to make out an object through the refracted light of a heavy snowstorm. He could see the snowflakes, immediate and particular, and he could discern the more distant objects that were coated in white: trees, roofs, roads, buildings. But he couldn’t actually see any particular object for itself, only the covered outlines.”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“Serdukov looked at the coast, assaulted by waves, rocks becoming sand.”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“To the west, upriver, was the compact epicenter of national government: Congress, the civilian agencies, the White House, the monuments and museums, all arranged symmetrically as if the federal establishment were a formal garden. The president was weak, it was universally believed; the Congress was enfeebled by partisan divisions; it was as if the balance wheel had broken and the real work of the government had stopped, but the garden remained immaculate.”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. —Marcus Tullius Cicero”
― David Ignatius, The Director

“deputy information”
― David Ignatius, The Director