Michelle Rodriguez Quotes

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked to, and authorized to, steal secrets. So if the question is whether the CIA steals secrets, the answer is yes.

Anyone who tells you he deals with the CIA is either a fool (for admitting it) or a braggart.

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Most of the secrets the CIA has are about people, not machines and systems, so I didn't feel comfortable with disclosures that I thought could endanger anyone.

I've always been baffled by critics of the CIA, who are horrified that it does illegal things. That is the purpose of an intelligence service: to perform illegal acts.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

The CIA claims that secrecy is necessary to hide what it's doing from enemies of the United States ... the real reason for secrecy is to hide what the CIA is doing from the American people.

It's inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about CIA—its cost, its efficiency, its successes, and its failures.

[Referring to the CIA:] We coexist. They work, and we work.

Everything the CIA does is secret and it is secret particularly from the Congress.

The United States is the only country in the world that has ever released the operations files of its intelligence agency.

The FBI had more agents in New York than the CIA had agents abroad. [In the 1990s].

It [the CIA] was not intended as a Cloak & Dagger Outfit. It was intended merely as a center for keeping the President of what was going on in the World…I never wanted the CIA to act as a spy organization. That was never the intention when it was organized.

Secrecy now beclouds everything about the Central Intelligence Agency—its cost, its efficiency, its success, its failures.

If you’re going to be involved with espionage, you’ve got to be motivated. It’s not fun and games. It’s dirty and dangerous. There’s always the chance that you’re going to get burned.

The CIA was set up by me for the sole purpose of getting all the available information to the President. It was not intended to operate as an international agency engaged in strange activities.

The National Security Agency: Where Intelligence Goes To Work

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

Most people don't know what goes on in the intelligence services. Certainly I had very little idea what went on in GCHQ. For me it was a job, a chance to use my languages.

First of all, CIA follows the law.

As a former FBI counterintelligence agent who investigated foreign propaganda cases, I've seen firsthand how foreign intelligence services leverage American freedoms - and the constitutional limitations on the FBI's investigative power - to their advantage.