Cia Quote by John Kiriakou

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very…

— Claire Danes

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

I romanticized about it in my twenties, but I don't think I would have enjoyed being a spy. I worry too much.

— Mark Ivanir

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

— Gina Haspel

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

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

— Barry Eisler

I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I was the guy in the back alleys at four o'clock in…

— Will Hurd

I'm a spy. It's not really... I worked for the CIA 15 years. The cover was I worked for the insurance business.

— Tom Clancy

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like…

— Ryan Reynolds

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

Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.

— John O. Brennan

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

— Porter Goss