Cia Quotes - Page 8

• People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

  Claire Danes

  People, Actors, Warning

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• I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.

  Ally Carter

  Half, Custody, Break

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.183, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.

  Lynne Truss

  Expression, Cia Agents, People

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• The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Blood, Cia Agents, Alex

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

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Levels, Pentagon

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

  Barry Eisler

  Thinking, Office, Spy

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• We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.

  Edward Snowden

  Next Week, Long, Government Spying

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin Americans are scorned, exploited, and humiliated? How can they do this - the bosses of an empire where the mafia, gambling, and child prostitution are imposed; where the CIA organizes plans of global subversion and espionage, and the Pentagon creates neutron bombs capable of preserving material assets and wiping out human beings.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, War, Men

  Fidel Castro's speech on the 25th anniversary of the Moncada Barracks attack, July 26, 1978.

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• In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.

  Stephen Schneider

  Book, Writing, World Government

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• The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Children, Eye

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• Journalists aren't supposed to praise things. It's a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Buying, Serious

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.

  Richard Armitage

  Iraq, Agents, Metrics

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• The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable. The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us. But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI's investigation, so there's anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak. We've published about 33,000 of Clinton's emails when she was Secretary of State.

  Julian Assange

  Always Trying, Mistress, Email

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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

  John O. Brennan

  Mean, Careers, Fortune

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• I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

  Dean Norris

  Play, Lapd, Ems

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

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• When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

  George Tenet

  Men, Agency, Years

  Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

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• The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.

  George W. Bush

  Said Life, Guessing, Might

  "Bush upbeat on Iraq in talk to U.N. / President dismisses concerns about spread of violence" by Dana Milbank, Colum Lynch, www.sfgate.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.

  Dennis Altman

  Wrath, Epidemics, Political

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• As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA`s best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

  Michael Morell

  Jobs, President, United States

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

  Frank Church

  Past, Media, Organization

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• Organizations like the CIA and the FBI are still kind of supermen, kind of SS troops: We're blond and the best and everyone else should be incinerated. They don't know right from wrong. That's what makes a satire of these government bureaus really funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Government, Organization, Troops

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• Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.

  Denzel Washington

  Years, Research, Littles

  "Safe House: A Conversation With Denzel Washington". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. February 04, 2012.

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• Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

  Robin Cook

  Agency, Occupation, Als

  "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.

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• A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

  Bob Graham

  Leadership, Numbers, Want

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• The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Ambassadors, Division, Kenya

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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