The Enemy Inside Quotes

“What they say about sunlight is true. It is often the best disinfectant.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Democracy was expendable. Money could still be made. China needed capital from the West to fuel its modernization on the mainland.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“The reality was that in America the truly rich had regiments of lawyers and accountants with numberless schemes to avoid taxes.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“China had become America’s banker for a simple reason. The United States needed ever-increasing infusions of cash.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“they woke up to realize that many of these corporations, multinational American giants, were no longer paying taxes on their overseas income. Wonder of wonders! To cap it off, these selfsame leaders couldn’t agree on a feasible method to encourage or force these companies to bring the money home. To the contrary they passed tax laws that actually discouraged this.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“American leaders sat by watching as vast sectors of their heavy industry hemorrhaged and ultimately fled offshore. Factories that didn’t leave closed down. Some politicians actually assisted these industries”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“They had lost all sense of the art, always to provide one’s prince with the refuge of credible deniability, what the British called a scintilla of truth.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Every government on the globe was crawling up your behind to keep tabs on you like you were their puppet.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Maybe they should take a closer look at the people they elect.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“It took ten years before they discovered half the world was crazy and some of the people in the asylum were fashioning nuclear weapons.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Guns were out and butter was in, enough to grease the welfare skids and”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“the Eagle, had compromised and as a consequence owned nearly a third of the key positions in the House and almost as many in the Senate.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Cheng’s intelligence bureau had worked for years using cutouts, front corporations and sham companies in a program designed to compromise members of the US Congress. You would run out of digits trying to compute the amounts of money they had spent. The approach was always the same. Shower the politicians with cash, campaign contributions if you had to, outright bribes if you could convince them to take it. The goal was to compromise them so that the Bureau might extort official acts and secret information—to own them. The Chinese thought their program was unique. In fact rogues from the US intelligence community, people who had left the government in some cases decades earlier and who went private setting up their own companies, were doing the same thing. Only they were doing it on a much larger scale and with much greater success.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“The last thing the American president needed was news that China was about to erase his airpower edge in the Western Pacific.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“America’s partisan divide went global.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“America was in decline. While the United States was distracted with its Mideast adventures and its myopic focus on terrorism, China was busy investing in long-term infrastructure and industry, grabbing up critical global resources—oil, metals, and rare earth among others.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“that matter what’s swimming in it.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“They extolled America as the “great melting pot” and in the next breath engaged in dangerous games, pitting one group against another, then summed it all up by saying that “Americans needed to come together!”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Some US leaders invited the destitute of the world to cross their leaking borders with assurances that they would be entitled to the same.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Their dealings were grounded not in ideology, but pragmatic common interest—the seeds of which were money and power. The”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“If the truth be known, they would realize that Cheng’s network was far more pervasive, so much so that it had drilled into the very core of the American government in Washington.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“The place was believed to have so many of Cheng’s spies working there, gathering information and sending it back to Beijing, that some in the US intelligence community now referred to it not as “Chinatown,” but as “Cheng’s Town.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“Government can do whatever it wants, kick the crap out of their political opponents while ignoring the crimes committed by their friends.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“big brown eyeballs do a quick roll around the inside of the room.”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

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― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“writes it down. “I’ll look and see what I can”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“frequency, which tend to swallow”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside

“staggering gait. I wonder if he’s with the wedding”
― Steve Martini, The Enemy Inside