The Asset Quotes

“The president has reached his constitutional term limits. They’ve got protests in the streets, students fighting the police.”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“Lance sat on a commuter train from DC to New York. The train passed endless rows of cookie-cutter houses, warehouses, big-box retail stores. It looked like the world was becoming one big logistics solution.”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“away, that hadn’t wanted him as a member. The president”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“get himself to the top. By”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“His job had been to read intercepts, to categorize them. Someone else, higher up the chain, would decide what they meant. In sixteen years, he must have read over fifty thousand intercepts. While some related to important developments like troop movements along the frontier, or the location of NATO defensive missile systems in former socialist states, the vast majority were exceedingly mundane. They covered topics like the seating arrangement at a formal function in Paris, or the maintenance records for water heaters at a military housing facility in Berlin, or parking permits for visitors at the American embassy in Madrid. Igor read them all, and in sixteen years, no one ever asked his opinion on them.”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“the better the vehicle, the farther you had to walk back when it failed. The”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“At my age, I’m looking at a future with more goodbyes in it than hellos.”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“The force that really made the world go round was the delicate, tender, all-too-easily-wounded snowflake that was the male ego. That was what brought nations to war, what brought soldiers to the battlefield, and what brought men to women’s beds. Either version of the cover story worked, but the top brass preferred the penniless translator version. It was cheaper, but it was also more effective. It turned out powerful men were significantly more turned on by a woman who was broke than one who already had everything she wanted. The trophy-wife version was reserved for operations where access”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“fortune favored the bold.”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset

“in”
― Saul Herzog, The Asset