Top 1200 Cia Agents Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The American people and our allies around the world can rely on CIA's vigilance, excellence, and determination to proudly serve.

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

CIA has been treated with enormous respect and our expertise is valued for what we bring to the table.

CIA has learned some tough lessons, especially when asked to tackle missions that fall outside our expertise.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.

The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.

The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.

As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon

I have the best agents in the world.

Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

I come from a service family - I met my husband Dave during my third tour in Iraq serving as a CIA analyst alongside the military.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

States are not moral agents.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

Pictures are packaged and cast by agents.

I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Proud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

Just to talk a moment about transparency, of course CIA does have a Twitter account.

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.

Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.

We must be agents of love.

Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.

I am not sorry the CIA went to the edge of the law in the aftermath of 9/11 to prevent further mass-casualty attacks on the U.S.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI.

Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

My agents love pranking me.

[T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.

Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

As a former CIA operative, I have seen first-hand that not every nation we buy energy from has America's best interest in mind.

As I look back on my first year as Director, I am more in awe of the men and women at CIA than ever before.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

It is now well-known that the Taliban's creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

We did casting in L.A. and a lot of people came against the advice of their agents. The agents said, "You shouldn't be in Postal, it will damage your career." So Zack Ward came to casting and played one of the cop parts, and then later I looked at the DVDs again and said, "This guy is Postal Dude." He's like white trailer trash. He's had a long time in the film industry, but no real success. He needs money; he's two-times divorced in real life. He said he works only to pay off his Philippine ex-wife.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.