The spy files Quotes

“The old adage that ‘there are two sides to every story’ is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.”

“Fairness is a term that is interpreted different ways. For the government, fair is whatever suits their needs.”

“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?”

“Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.”

“Brent never trusted anyone who couldn’t look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.”

“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?”

“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.”

“His sense of “justice” had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement”