Cia Quotes

• It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

  Jim Garrison

  Interesting, Messages, Six

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• We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.

  William J. Casey

  Believe, Program, Knows

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• I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Freedom, Agency, Historical

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• I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Political, President

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

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Target, Bombs, Rooms

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• In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

  Charlton Heston

  Fire, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Years, Knowing, Secret

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• The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Boys, Made, Princeton

  Cited in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

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• I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

  Michael Scheuer

  Leadership, Senior, Thinking

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• The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

  Ken Follett

  Book, Swag, Research

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

  Ted Allen

  Fundraising, People, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

  Tucker Carlson

  Teacher, Book, School

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

  S. Robson Walton

  Years, Friendly, World

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• Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.

  Stanley Crouch

  Dog, Liars, School

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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.

  Leon Panetta

  Directors, Goes On, World

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• The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Mean, People, United States

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• Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

  Robert M. Gates

  Guy, Leader, Diplomats

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• Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

  William Blum

  Military, War, World

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.162, Zed Books

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

  Leon Panetta

  People, Life And Death, Decision

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• For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Policy Making, World

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• We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

  Katharine Graham

  Believe, Dirty, World Government

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• I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wind, Splinters, Pieces

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• 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.

  Aldrich Ames

  Late, Term, Deals

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• The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Thinking, Israel, Numbers

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

  Aldrich Ames

  Cia Agents, Names, Unions

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