Intelligence Services Quotes

• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, Leader

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• On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

  Frederick Forsyth

  Men, Secret, Robins

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• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "What Is Intelligence?" by Max Miller, bigthink.com.

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• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Patriotic, Imagination

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• An intelligence service is the ideal vehicle for a conspiracy.

  Allen Dulles

  Conspiracy, Vehicle, Ideals

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• Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Government, Nsa

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

  Gijs de Vries

  Heart, National Security, Sovereignty

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• There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Soapbox, Done

  Financial Times Interview, www.ft.com. February 15, 2006.

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• I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

  Markus Wolf

  Money, Sex, Mean

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• The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

  John le Carre

  Opposites, Secret, Littles

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• Where are we going to reject that easy but flawed process of letting the intelligence services do whatever they want? It's inevitable that it will happen. I think it's going to be where Internet businesses go.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, Want, Internet Business

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

  Dick Cheney

  Work, Intelligent, Government

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2006.

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• In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.

  Julian Assange

  Pride, Gentleman, Quality

  "We Are Drowning in Material". Interview with Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. July 20, 2015.

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• Through the threat of IS, we recognize how important the cooperation with intelligence services (inaudible) first and foremost also with the services of the United States is.

  Angela Merkel

  Important, United States, Firsts

  Source: time.com

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• Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Stupid, Iraq

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• The environment in Canada is much more conducive to doing critical work, though Canada has its own set of problems, but nothing like those emerging in the United States. Unlike Penn State which was a huge recipient of Pentagon funds, and was hostile to any criticism of its connection to the military and intelligence services, McMaster is a very open university that takes its commitment to a quality education and function as a democratic sphere very seriously.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Commitment, Quality

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  War, Issues, Assessment

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

  Dick Cheney

  Numbers, Together, Records

  Rocky Mountain News Interview with M.E. Sprengelmeyer, January 9, 2004.

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• All the intelligence services of America and Europe know full well that the disastrous attack ( of 9/11 ) has been planned and realized from the Mossad.. with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the Western Powers to take part in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  Francesco Cossiga

  Country, America, Order

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• We know that Russian intelligence services, which is part of the Russian government which is under the firm control of Vladimir Putin, hacked into the DNC. And we know that he arranged for a lot of those emails to be released.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, Email, Putin

  "Hillary Clinton on tight race, accusations against Trump". www.foxnews.com. July 31, 2016.

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• You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, and kept all these friends they had made, and found a way of dealing with the terrorists through co-operation of international intelligence services, police exchange of information.

  Kofi Annan

  Support, Police, Information

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• I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true.

  Roger Stone

  Mass Destruction, Doe, Agents

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Thinking, Iran

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• Did you follow what [General Yehoshafat] Harkabi wrote? Formerly of the Israeli military intelligence service. Remember him? Did you follow what he wrote? He said that it was for the sake of the existence of Israel that we have to accept the rights of the Palestinians to have their independent state.

  Yasser Arafat

  Military, Independent, Rights

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• It [the intelligence service] concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes, including against his own Shia population; and that he is actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons capability.

  Tony Blair

  Military, Iraq, Trying

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