Kim Philby

I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.

It cannot be so very surprising that I adopted a Communist viewpoint in the 1930s; so many of my contemporaries made the same choice. But many of those who made that choice in those days changed sides when some of the worst features of Stalinism became apparent. I stayed the course.

Friendship is the most important thing of all.