Achievement Quote by Vladimir Semichastny

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

— Vladimir Putin

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man,…

— Masha Gessen

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

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

After the fall of Communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltzin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name…

— Gerard Batten

Putin, I believe, was actually born to be a KGB agent. And I say born because I think that his father was also an…

— Masha Gessen

The KGB still killed people, the KGB would not execute its last prisoner until the final days of its existence in 1991, but by…

— Tom Clancy

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

— James Carville

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

— Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in…

— Anne Applebaum

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB…

— Brian Crozier

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the…

— Natan Sharansky