Awful Quote by Leon Panetta

I would be a terrible CIA officer in real life.

— Claire Danes

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

— Leon Panetta

I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

— Valerie Plame

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

As I look back on my first year as Director, I am more in awe of the men and women at CIA than ever…

— Gina Haspel

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

— Porter Goss

My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and…

— Valerie Plame

I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.

— Aldrich Ames

I've long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can…

— James Clapper

I always wanted to work for the CIA growing up. I'd be a CIA operative in Hollywood that made movies to manipulate the masses.

— Spencer Pratt

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

— Jesse Ventura