There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as… — Valerie Plame Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil… — Valerie Plame Accountability Copy Share Image
I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the… — Valerie Plame Career Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all. — Valerie Plame Access Copy Share Image
I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a… — Valerie Plame Cia Copy Share Image
We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her… — Valerie Plame Country Copy Share Image
How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times,… — Valerie Plame Hope Copy Share Image
It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imagine it's much like… — Valerie Plame Dating Copy Share Image
The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will… — Valerie Plame Bipolar Copy Share Image
I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However,… — Valerie Plame Body Copy Share Image
I think a nuclear detonation is society-altering in ways that other attacks, even as horrific as 9/11, are not. This isn't because… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I'm the… — Valerie Plame Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
No matter what age people are, I hope the lesson is to be engaged. Understand what your government is doing. Follow them.… — Valerie Plame Age Copy Share Image
I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper… — Valerie Plame Cia Copy Share Image
Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words… — Valerie Plame Abuse of power Copy Share Image
When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you… — Valerie Plame Cia Copy Share Image
I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not… — Valerie Plame Alone Copy Share Image
Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the… — Valerie Plame Cia Copy Share Image
Regarding Wikileaks, I have profound ambivalent feelings about it. I am a firm believer in a strong intelligence service. There's a need… — Valerie Plame Classified information Copy Share Image
If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health… — Valerie Plame Democracy Copy Share Image
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which in 1996 set out to ban nuclear tests, is an important step, but we need… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys. — Valerie Plame Bond Copy Share Image
The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we… — Valerie Plame Environmental Copy Share Image
I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by… — Valerie Plame Bond Copy Share Image
Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
From a counter-intelligence viewpoint, the OPM breach is really scary - but if we continue to see the erosion of purely commercial… — Valerie Plame Business Copy Share Image
In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for… — Valerie Plame Bush administration Copy Share Image
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the… — Valerie Plame Book Copy Share Image
The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day. — Valerie Plame Day Copy Share Image
Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system… — Valerie Plame Identity Copy Share Image
When I was outed on July 14th, 2003, I was, until that moment, covert. That means no one outside of a very… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
