Boys Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Adriano Giannini

I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.

— Stephen Lewis

The CIA is an incompetent bureaucracy, generally.

— Robert Baer

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

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

If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions, their shareholders…

— Peter Bergen

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

Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.

— Gerald Posner

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

— Porter Goss

Why the CIA wanna watch us?

— Shakira

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

First of all, CIA follows the law.

— Gina Haspel