In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.