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Kit Bennett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
782 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Agency
The Price of Freedom

He's the guy with the codes.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And I am sufficiently idealistic to think that this is done by honest players.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

In New Zealand, it's done by honest players.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

I believe that the people in there are essentially good people.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And that's a function of what you find in Western intelligence services, because that's a reflection of our society.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And intelligence services have to be a reflection of our society, just like police services have to be a reflection of our society, like the military.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And the esteem with which New Zealanders hold the military in

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

is not the esteem that a lot of countries hold their military in because their military's turned on them from time to time.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

After the such case, there was a demonstration outside 175 Taranaki Street

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

So we were up in the director's office looking down at 10,000 people.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

That's a lot of people protesting.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And Ron said, this is why we do this job, Kit, because all those people are going to go home tonight and go off to parties and go home tonight and nothing is going to happen to them.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

They think we're in here photographing them.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

But that's why we do this job.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And I always thought that's right.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

Maybe a bit idealistic, but that's exactly right.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And lots of countries don't have that.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

So we have that.

The Agency
The Price of Freedom

And, you know, the song says, you don't know what you've got till it's gone.