Spy Quotes - Page 4

• The CIA runs the drone program in Pakistan solely, not with the military. Then there's a joint CIA-military program in Yemen, then the CIA is involved in a lot of use of spy drones around the world and in the proliferation of bases.

  Medea Benjamin

  Running, Military, Yemen

  Source: progressive.org

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern. But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.

  Edward Snowden

  Rights, Nsa, Play

  "Snowden: Feinstein a Hypocrite for Blasting CIA Spying". www.nbcnews.com. March 11, 2014.

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• I always liked spy stories.

  Walter Wager

  Stories

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• A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Wife, Towns

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• On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret footprints and catch far-off voices from the homecoming celebration. This land still longs for Odysseus.

  Homer

  Home, Rocks, Sea

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• Setting people to spy on one another is not the way to protect freedom.

  Tommy Douglas

  People, Way, Protect

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• In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. But he'd never been given a choice. Nowadays, spies weren't employed. They were used.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Country, Choices, Done

  Anthony Horowitz (2004). “Stormbreaker”, Puffin

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• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  Gary Oldman

  Lying, Terrible, Incapable

  "Gary Oldman: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  William Davenant

  Sorrow, Safe, Knows

  Sir William Davenant (1872). “Dramatic Works of William D'Avenant”, p.265

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• The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

  Daniel Handler

  Flower, Doors, Numbers

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• Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

  Rand Paul

  People, Giving, Watches

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Reading, Years, Cold

  "This much I know: Malcolm Gladwell" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2010.

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• The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Truth, Men, Shining

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• She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
  I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

  Paul Simon

  Photography, Men, Suits

  "America," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 album Bookends.

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• Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

  Agnes Smedley

  Russia, Safe, Surveillance

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• We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

  Barack Obama

  Citizens, Use, Letters

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• I'm not a spy, which is the real question

  Edward Snowden

  Real, Memorable, Real Questions

  "Defending His Actions, Snowden Says He’s a Patriot". Article by Elena Schneider and Steve Kenny, www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2014.

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• They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Benevolence

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.39, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Use

  The Art of War (6th century b.c.).

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• Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.

  Morley Safer

  Beautiful, Couple, Doubt

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• What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Equality, Slavery, Prison

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• My dream is to do something like the female Bourne, and do something in that world. To mix that high level of drama with the covert operation, conspiracy theory spy world fascinates me and it's so interesting. It's fun to do it.

  Ali Larter

  Dream, Fun, Drama

  "Ali Larter Interview RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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• However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

  Christine Keeler

  Dresses, Proud

  Christine Keeler, Douglas Thompson (2012). “Secrets and Lies: Now Profumo is Dead, I Can Finally Reveal the Truth About the Most Shocking Scandal in British Politic”, p.18, John Blake Publishing

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