Q has spoken about lucrative book deals. There's also a lucrative speaker circuit.
Hillary Clinton was paid upwards of $ 250,000 for a speech, Bill Clinton $ 200,000, and James Comey $ 100,000.

Here are a few names that appear frequently over the years in this circuit:
Benazir Bhutto, Bill Clinton, Bob Woodward, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dalai Lama, David Cameron, Desmond Tutu, Donna Brazile, Ehud Barak, Fareed Zakaria, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, James Comey, Jeb Bush, Joe Biden, John Bolton, John Kerry, Leon Panetta, Madeleine Albright, Margaret Thatcher, Mario Cuomo, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf, Robert Mueller, Samantha Power, Sanjay Gupta, Shimon Peres, Susan Rice, Theresa May, Tony Blair, Zbigniew Brzezinski

Anderson Cooper, Charles Kuralt, Charlie Rose, Chris Wallace, Christiane Amanpour, Dan Rather, Jane Pauley, Jeffrey Toobin, Lesley Stahl, Walter Cronkite

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