Aldrich Ames

“I'm a traitor, but I'm not a cold-blooded murderer.”

“The espionage business, as opposed to the intelligence business, is about betraying people, and I don't think I'm any different from my predecessors.”

“I needed the money. I'd have done almost anything for it.”

“The human spy, in terms of the American effort, is not remotely the soul of the business.”

“There is a kind of laxness about counterintelligence in this country that is probably bred into us by our democratic institutions.”