Intelligence Agencies Quotes

• Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

  Raymond Chandler

  Agency, Chess, Waste

  Of chess. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

  Edward Snowden

  Powerful, Agency, Risk

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Dark, Agency

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2001.

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• Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, United States, Add

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and
  stuntmen.

  William S. Burroughs

  Agency, Commodity, Danger

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What do you do when other countries' intelligence agencies give you information and you aren't entirely certain about its source? Simply ignore it? That's impossible. We have a duty to guarantee the safety of our citizens.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Agency, Safety

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, Law, Secret

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

  Harry S. Truman

  Freedom, Agency, Historical

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• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Veterans Day, Truth, Ethos

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• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  Chris Chocola

  Wall, Agency, Law

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• In order for any smartphone manufacturer to decrypt the data on your phone, it has to hold onto a secret that lets it get that access. And that secret or that database of secrets becomes an extremely valuable and useful target for intelligence agencies.

  Matt Blaze

  Agency, Phones, Order

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.

  Barack Obama

  Agency, Government, Nsa

  President Obama’s speech on NSA reforms, www.washingtonpost.com. January 17, 2014.

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• Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

  Robert Mueller

  Agency, Nsa, Information

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

  Fighting, Agency, Police

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• There is thus little or no ability for an internet user to know when they are being covertly propagandized by their government, which is precisely what makes it so appealing to intelligence agencies, so powerful, and so dangerous.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Powerful, Agency, Government

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• As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.

  Matt Blaze

  Agency, Phones, Police

  Source: www.politico.com

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• With respect to the outlines of what's in the Army Field Manual, there's no doubt in my mind about the limitations it places not only on the DOD, but on the Central Intelligence Agency. And I'll always comply with the law.

  James Mattis

  Army, Agency, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

  Andrew Greeley

  War, Taken, Agency

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• This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

  Richard Helms

  Agency, Mind, Negative

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• We have President-elect [Donald] Trump out there calling the CIA assessment that Russia was trying to help elect him ridiculous. He also questions - says he doesn't believe the earlier findings of all 17 intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to get involved in our elections.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Believe, Russia, Agency

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My answer is that [Donald] Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he's had every establishment off side; Trump doesn't have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment, but banks, intelligence [agencies], arms companies... big foreign money ... are all united behind Hillary Clinton, and the media as well, media owners and even journalists themselves.

  Julian Assange

  Winning, Agency, Media

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Russia, Agency, Talking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I agree that we have to have the toughest screening and vetting that we can have, but I don`t think a halt is necessary. What we have to do is put all of our resources through the Department of Homeland Security, through the State Department, through our intelligence agencies, and we have to have an increased vetting and screening .

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Thinking, Agency, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I worked with [Hillary Clinton] for four years very closely when she was secretary of state and I was at the CIA. I provided her - personally provided her some of the most sensitive information that the Central Intelligence Agency has.

  Michael Morell

  Agency, Years, Four

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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