Bo Gritz Quotes

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.

After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration steadfastly refused to say which element of the U.S. military had participated in the assault. Until Vice President Joe Biden decided to talk about it on national television, that is.

I went to Ft Bragg and learned that Delta was indeed gearing up for the rescue. Still I was concerned the Reagan staff would not be willing to take the risk of sending an official military force into Laos.

Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.

The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power.

'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's just hysterically funny.

As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.

A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.

I spent a whole career infiltrating places.

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's like, 'Everything's going to be fine now. We're here.' That's not how these guys operate. They're very different.

Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure facility in the Empire. You have a small band of experts with complementary skills who, together, are able to do these amazing things.

I rescue people.

Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.

I recall my first foreign agent meeting was on a dark, moonless night with an agent I'd never met before. When I picked him up, he passed me the intelligence and I passed him extra money for the men he led. It was the beginning of an adventure I had only dreamed of.

Breaking a cardinal rule of spy craft, I actually let it be known that I wanted to work for the CIA.

I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.

If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.

The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

Osama bin Laden was living in that compound with three wives. It's like he was Newt Gingrich.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.