Always Quote by 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

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

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

— Vladimir Putin

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 Soviet State Security Service] is more than a secret police organization, more than an intelligence and counter-intelligence organization. It is an instrument for…

— Allen W. Dulles

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

— Garry Kasparov

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

— James Carville

KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of the Soviet…

— Vladimir Semichastny

The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days.

— Alexander Litvinenko

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

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he…

— Ronald Kessler