The CIA and the intelligence community failed this country pretty badly. That's why there's new leadership at the CIA. Change is not easy,
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MICHAEL HAYDEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The department remains in regular consultation with the relevant committees in Congress and with oth...
LAWRENCE DIRITA Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.
INGRID SEWARD The office of the inspector general developed this report over two years. During that same time peri...
JENNIFER MILLERWISE Since the start of the war on terror, the intelligence community, led by the CIA, has revived the us...
ALFRED MCCOY Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserv...
RONALD KESSLER The same thing at the CIA and the FBI,
RICHARD SHELBY One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked...
MICHAEL HAYDEN an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator...
STEVEN AFTERGOOD There is plenty of work to go around. One key to success is that intelligence activities in a given ...
PAUL GIMIGLIANO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.
KENNETH EADE The CIA knew who they were, they knew that they were suspected al Qaeda operatives, they failed to a...
MICHAEL ISIKOFF I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to belie...
GEORGE BUSH The problem was the CIA and FBI not communicating and not picking them up.
THOMAS KEAN He is not a Navy SEAL and he's not a CIA operative.
THOMAS EGAN We have to change the guidelines that we use to recruit those spies, ... In fact the CIA is required...
JANE HARMAN There have been no CIA jails in Poland and there are no CIA jails or prisoners.
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.
PHIL OCHS It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for ...
ROB WALTON The proof is completely clear and the CIA has never denied it.
DICK MARTY The CIA thoroughly pursued this issue and did so on more than one occasion.
JENNIFER MILLERWISE For all intents and purposes out at the CIA, she's like a leper ... she's radioactive.
LARRY JOHNSON There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things t...
LEON PANETTA Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
ED MARKEY I'm sure the FBI and CIA must be mortified by this because it is extremely embarrassing to them.
RAY CLOSE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN Well," I say, "we're practically there."
"Where?" says Jefferson.
"The future.
CHRIS WEITZ Parochialism is one of the CIA's biggest problems. These career CIA officers, while having valuable ...
CHRISTOPHER BOND Our direction does not come from the CIA to investigate a disease outbreak.
BARBARA REYNOLDS Given Cheney's background on national security going back to the Ford years, his time on the House I...
BOB WOODWARD The men and women of the CIA are a national treasure.
JOHN O. BRENNAN Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC.
AMY ZEGART We have intelligence reports that some of them are CIA, ... The president's decision was based on re...
JOSE VICENTE RANGEL I simply don't see why any profession should be completely and permanently excluded from the possibi...
BOB KERREY I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. T...
CHARLES MCCARRY When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the m...
GEORGE TENET The CIA has worked hand in glove with the National Archives over the years on declassification and w...
PAUL GIMIGLIANO [The CIA has a] unique responsibility to steal secrets, ... That is absolutely timeless.
JAMES WOOLSEY The CIA shall search and review in response to plaintiffs' FOIA requests,
ALVIN HELLERSTEIN that would basically allow the CIA to engage in torture.
JOHN MCCAIN You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ...
STEVEN SEAGAL We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.
BOB GRAHAM At Cabinet meetings in a U.S. Parliament, the FBI chief and CIA chief both elected and facing new el...
BOB KELLEHER From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic pla...
BARRY EISLER I am aware of no CIA official who would have -- or possibly could have -- confirmed the details of t...
BILL HARLOW This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and ...
GEORGE TENET If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab do...
MAX BROOKS One of the things frankly we have to do is demystify (the CIA) a little bit, ... You are not going t...
PORTER GOSS I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our lead...
MICHAEL SCHEUER The CIA credo is that the U.S. must always have the place of primacy among our interests,
PORTER GOSS I have always been appalled by the depiction of female CIA operatives.
VALERIE PLAME If the CIA rubs me out before long, you know what happened.
RAY NAGIN If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable t...
PETER L. BERGEN It's clearly a double standard here because it's clear that the mishandling of information has occur...
JEFFREY HARRIS A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified st...
BOB GRAHAM Someone who's inadmissible is in the same category as the people that the CIA snatches and grabs fro...
BARBARA OLSHANSKY Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.
MICHAEL HAYDEN I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going ...
GEORGE H. W. BUSH If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN These very serious charges go to the heart of whether administration officials misused intelligence ...
JAY ROCKEFELLER You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently.
MARTY RUBIN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN And even if you’re right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She wa...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA cu...
ALLY CARTER I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA cu...
ALLY CARTER It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
RAND PAUL How did you not know they broke up? You usually monitor his social media like he's al-Qaeda and you'...
HEATHER COCKS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON guarded by a couple of CIA agents and some Treasury Department guys.
JIM WALKER When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.
CHARLES MCCARRY First In: An Insider's Account of How the CIA Spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan
COFER BLACK A CIA employee assigned to provide daily intelligence briefs to the Vice President and Libby has han...
PATRICK FITZGERALD The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
BARRY EISLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN I don't think we have a lot to show yet for the intelligence reform. What's their vision for running...
MARK LOWENTHAL Hundreds of CIA-chartered flights have passed through numerous European countries.
DICK MARTY when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes onl...
WHY THE LUCKY STIFF My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I co...
DANA PRIEST A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should ...
VINCE FLYNN He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Congress has to step up the pace. The FBI, the CIA -- they can't just be thinking about, 'Well this ...
BOB HUGHES [There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and inte...
BILL CLINTON In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney G...
ORIT BADOUK EPSTEIN Hearings on secret CIA detentions and rendition of terrorist suspects should be held in the U.S. Con...
JOANNE MARINER This is why New York has become the most relevant fashion capital in the world. Because we respect n...
ANNA WINTOUR Can we seize classified files of the CIA? No, that's not possible. We don't have the powers, we have...
FRANCO FRATTINI The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, clas...
ANNIE JACOBSEN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Don't cry pretty girl. Who you are is why you're so good at everything. You won't let yourself be ot...
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IRENE PETER Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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PETER MARSHALL Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
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PETER LINDBERGH New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
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PETER BENCHLEY Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
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PETER DRUCKER Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
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PETER SHAFFER Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
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PETER GUBER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
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PETER USTINOV A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
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PETER KLINE The best way to predict the future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
PETER DRUCKER The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was ...
PETER DRUCKER God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and t...
PETER TOWNSEND The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
PETER DRUCKER There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
PETER DRUCKER I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.
PETER JENNINGS So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.
PETER TOWNSEND What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to d...
PETER DRUCKER