Russian Holiday Quotes

“War is hot, not cold.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“I’m the Deputy Director for Operations.”
“Congratulations. A title so classified you can’t even list it on your resumé when they fire you.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“Russia had always been an anomaly. Here they were, in the center of the city that had burned down around Napoleon’s army, having “traditional” Russian cuisine that had been invented by the French.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn’t know them at all.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“He could see that drinking and conversation were inexorably intertwined and that one did not occur without the other.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“C’ in Russian is pronounced like your ‘S’, so first letter in CIA stands for ‘sneaky.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“Robert’s realm was the undercurrent of the illegitimate space of covert operations – the dirty little (and big) things the government does but doesn’t want to admit to.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“Time meant opportunity. After all, what more do we have than time? We measure it arbitrarily, but as we spend it, until it’s used up, it is called living.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday

“When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.”
― Kenneth Eade, Russian Holiday