Against Quote by Martin Donovan

In much of the world, there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running…

— Noam Chomsky

The American people and our allies around the world can rely on CIA's vigilance, excellence, and determination to proudly serve.

— Gina Haspel

As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they…

— Scott Anderson

When I was a CIA officer we would have meetings and you don't know what people's politics are... We were there to serve a…

— Abigail Spanberger

The world order and American actions in the world have deep wiring.

— Ben Rhodes

I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful…

— Noam Chomsky

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

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that…

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each…

— Robert Teeter

[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab…

— Edward Said

The essential contradiction at the heart of America's problems: if we were a democracy and if we truly enjoyed free speech, we would be…

— Douglas Valentine

America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

— Adam Schiff