“For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of politica...” — John le Carre Quote

“For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.”

“I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.”

“I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.”

“As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.”

“Any war or conflict you enter where you are likely to lose more Americans and expend more treasure is something worthy of very detailed debate. There ought to be a lot of skepticism. There ought to be a lot of discussion.”

“There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.”