John Le Carre Quotes

On one hand we go like hell for every terror cell we can find, we penetrate it, we destroy it. On the other hand, there is a much bigger need for a political solution.

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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Because we are so unfamiliar with the motivation of the people we are dealing with, we are more afraid of them than we need to be.

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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To operate an intelligence network against the Islamist terror is terribly difficult because they don't have a central command and control center such as we would understand. Therefore you cannot...

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be...

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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In the war on terror we did everything wrong that we could have done.

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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We were not faced (in the cold war) in a conflict with people who are prepared to die for their cause. We weren't in conflict with people whose idea is to kill as many as they could.

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist.

John Le Carre

Interview with Ramona Koval - The Book Show, Australian Broadcasting Commission Radio National - 19 November, 2008.

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Nothing in life... even a few broken bones, is without its reward.

John Le Carre

The Mission Song - 2006.

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A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

John Le Carre

The Mission Song - 2006.

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