"No Congressman or senator in anyone's memory had ever succeeded in flouting the rules so repeatedly for so many years and managed to survive." p. 2

"'Charlie Did It' -President Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan, explaining the defeat of the Russians in Afghanistan." p. 4

"This book is the story of the biggest and most successful CIA campaign in history." p. 5

"It needs to be underscored that this is a true story. It's purely by coincidence that, as in any good spy novel, we happen to come up on the leading man in the beginning of this account surrounded by beautiful women." p. 7

"I would be sitting there where the button is, and if you're twenty-seven, it makes you feel very cocky knowing that here's Moscow, and here's Kiev, and if they fuck with us I'll just hit all these buttons." p. 27

"And most important for what he would alter do...