Action Quote by Frank Carlucci

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

— Claire Danes

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

— Jesse Ventura

We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also…

— Trevor Paglen

When you're in the CIA, you anticipate the possibility that you'll be betrayed by a foreign government or a source, but you never anticipate…

— Valerie Plame

I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service.…

— Barry Eisler

I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week…

— John Kiriakou

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running…

— Noam Chomsky

There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are…

— Ron Paul

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

— George H. W. Bush

The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed…

— John Kiriakou

I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been…

— Lindsey Graham

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

— Annie Jacobsen