Top 394 CIA Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents.
I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.
Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.
Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.
The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.
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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.
The Panetta/Petraeus combo is a powerful tandem. I've seen both of them up close and personal at the CIA and in Iraq.
The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.
Just to talk a moment about transparency, of course CIA does have a Twitter account.
I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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.
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.
I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.
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.
[Barack Obama] pledged to end torture, but he has continued the CIA renditions where you kidnap people and send them to another country to be interrogated.
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.
I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.
I got a top-secret security clearance and served in the CIA.
CIA has learned some tough lessons, especially when asked to tackle missions that fall outside our expertise.
CIA has been treated with enormous respect and our expertise is valued for what we bring to the table.
The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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.
The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.
If he'd expected to be pampered and coddled through his undercover assignments, he would have gone to work for the CIA.
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.
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
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.
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
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.
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.
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.
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.
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.
When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.
The American people and our allies around the world can rely on CIA's vigilance, excellence, and determination to proudly serve.
The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas.
When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.
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.
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
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.
I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
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.
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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.
