Dad Quote by Keri Russell

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

— Vladimir Putin

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

— Garry Kasparov

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that…

— Aldrich Ames

The only thing I ever withheld from the KGB were the names of two agents whom I personally had known and handled and had…

— Aldrich Ames

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

— Vladimir Putin

The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s…

— Alexandra Kollontai

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It seems that probably Putin's father maintained some connection to the secret police throughout his life. One sign of that is that they had…

— Masha Gessen

Nobody ever leaves the KGB, by the way. Once you're there, no matter what you say you've done next, nobody ever leaves the KGB.

— Rush Limbaugh

As we know the KGB is all over this election [2016].

— James Carville

My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son.

— Adriano Giannini