Quote by James R Bath

I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified.

— Porter Goss

I'm not a spy for Russia or China or any other country for that matter.

— Edward Snowden

Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are…

— Valerie Plame

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

I think even pro-China legislators would not believe I'm really a CIA agent.

— Joshua Wong

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time…

— Edward Snowden

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 joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

— Gina Haspel

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence…

— George J. Mitchell

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval;…

— Michael Hayden

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages.…

— Raymond Kelly

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

— Cofer Black