David Ignatius Quotes.

1. "Three Rules for When You Are Under Fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens."
- David Ignatius, The Director

2. "Always be the first to move; don’t wait until the"
- David Ignatius, The Director

3. "situation is clear, because by then it may be too late. 3) Keep moving until you find cover or you’re out of the fire zone."
- David Ignatius, The Director

4. "Three rules for when you are under fire: 1) Always have a plan for what to do if something bad happens. 2) Always be the first to move; don't wait until the situation is clear, because by then it may be too late. 3) Keep moving until you find cover or your out of the fire zone."
- David Ignatius, The Director

5. "deputy information"
- David Ignatius, The Director

6. "Finding a needle in a haystack was not as hard as it sounded, if you had a thread tied to the needle."
- David Ignatius, Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage

7. "All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near."
- David Ignatius, Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage

8. "Awal zaan resto jahan. First yourself, then the universe."
- David Ignatius, Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage

9. "the research? So many people, I did not know them all. They studied my work. They asked me questions. I told the ISI about it when I got home. A major like you, he was. You can check. The major did not want to make more work for himself. And it was true, the story as it had been narrated and understood was all in the files. Why did you go back to America? he demanded, looking at a sheet of paper. I was invited to present a paper at a conference that was cosponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. It was a great honor for me, and for my university. You can ask them. He held out his cell phone again, so that Major Nadeem could make a call to verify, but the major shook his head. They spent several more hours like this, going through the major episodes of Dr. Omar’s career. When they came to his most recent work on computer-security algorithms, Dr. Omar apologized that he could not talk about this work in any detail because it had been classified as top secret by the Pakistani military. The major found nothing of interest. Dr. Omar was very careful, then and always. The major asked him to sign a paper, and to report any suspicious contacts, and Dr. Omar assured him that he would. The Pakistani authorities never came after him again. That was three years before his world went white.   Omar al-Wazir had multiple binary identities, it could be said. He was a Pakistani but also, in some sense, a man tied to the West. He was a Pashtun from the raw tribal area of South Waziristan, but he was also a modern man. He was a secular scientist and also a Muslim, if not quite a believer. His loyalties might indeed have been confused before the events of nearly two years ago, but not now. Sometimes Dr. Omar grounded himself by recalling the spirit of his father, Haji Mohammed. He remembered the old man shaking his head when Omar took wobbly practice shots with an Enfield rifle, missing the target nearly every time. The look on the father’s face asked: How can this be my oldest son, this boy who cannot shoot? But Haji Mohammed had taught him the code of manhood, just the same. Omar had learned the"
- David Ignatius, Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage

10. "admonition: Fear your enemy once, fear your friend a thousand times."
- David Ignatius, Agents of Innocence