The Last Honest Man Quotes

“But Walter Mondale was so disgusted by what the Church Committee had uncovered that he questioned whether the United States should engage in covert action at all. “The record shows that there is an almost uncontrollable tendency to play God with other societies,” Mondale said during the hearings. It is naive to believe, he added, “that we can manipulate, control, and direct another society secretly with a few dollars or a few guns or a few bucks or a few lives in a way that we know we would never be controlled by another society that attempted the same tactics on us.”
― James Risen, The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy