The Spy Files Quotes

“Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry to survive, Your Honor. Besides the advancement of truth, science and morality in general, the freedom of the press is a backbone of democracy. It exists to keep the government transparent, and the human instruments of government honest.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“The test of any relationship is, when the going gets tough, whether your partner stays with you or 'gets going'.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Nobody in the government is talking. They say it’s a case of national security.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“The most innocent man’s words will be used against him.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Patrick Henry said ‘give me liberty or give me death.’ I think his famous quote makes it crystal clear that the Constitutional framework of this country values liberty as an essential element of life, worth dying for. If something is worth such a sacrifice, how can the loss of it be justified for the argument that it will make us safer to give up our liberty and our civil rights? Are we to tell the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of all the soldiers lost in foreign wars that it was all a big lie? That they died for nothing?”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“His sense of “justice” had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement; a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“We will preserve the right to counsel for the common man in this age of oligarchic anarchy.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Brent never trusted anyone who couldn’t look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Brent knew the first cardinal rule of talking to cops – don’t.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Legal representation in the 21st century was becoming a risky business.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Now they will go back to their lives. Some will curse us, some will look forward to serve, and others will look to us for entertainment. We will not disappoint any of them, Brent. They don’t need us, but we surely need them.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“It seems whenever the government doesn’t want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Knowles had always been a pain in the ass. A wannabe who never was and never would be.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They’re going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“1984 was alive and well in 2015.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no guarantee that will keep you away from criminal prosecution.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“We’re becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“Nobody in the government is talking. It’s a case of national security.”
“Of course. The national security of spying on U.S. citizens.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files

“The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way.”
― Kenneth Eade, The Spy Files