Arms Quote by Harry S. Truman

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

— Jesse Ventura

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

It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But that might…

— Nelson DeMille

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

Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to…

— Mark Riebling

Everything the CIA does is deniable. It's part of its Congressional mandate. Congress doesn't want to be held accountable for the criminal things the…

— Douglas Valentine

The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to…

— Medea Benjamin

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

— Nancy Pelosi

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

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to…

— David Ignatius

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

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take…

— Leon Panetta