Democracy Quote by Pat Buchanan

“What about the role of the CIA in a democratic society? Is that an oxymoron? You could imagine a democratic society with an organization…

— Noam Chomsky

We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The CIA also…

— Trevor Paglen

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

— Jesse Ventura

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 CIA was revealed to be spying in France, not for military purposes, but for corporate purposes. So this $30 billion spook agency is…

— Jerry Brown

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the…

— Aldrich Ames

There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are…

— Ron Paul

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

“The CIA found in Laos a country where it already had amassed influence, in the heart of a Cold War battlefield, and which had…

— Joshua Kurlantzick

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

— Aldrich Ames

We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy. We know that the evidence or information is sufficient to warrant an FBI investigation…

— Adam Schiff

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