Secret Service Quotes

• I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

  Michael Reagan

  Gun, House, Secret

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• I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they’re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I’m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It’s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk.

  Barack Obama

  Guy, Secret, President

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  Val Kilmer

  Military, Leader, Secret

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• In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away.

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, Parent, Secret

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• Secret Services are everywhere. They are part of out daily life. We just don't really care. We are not concerned at all.

  Christian Schwochow

  Secret, Care, Daily Life

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• ...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

  John le Carre

  Real, Expression, Political

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• The Secret Service hates to complain about something. They're secret by nature. They're not boastful; they don't like to be in the limelight. And therefore, they need middle management, i.e., a Cabinet-level person, to be their advocate, to Congress, to the White House, to ensure that they have adequate funding.

  Jeh Johnson

  Hate, House, Secret

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed.

  Michael Foot

  Secret, Bed, Looks

  Michael Foot's remarks on the Profumo Scandal, 1963.

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• It doesn't work the same way everywhere. The Americans are the most gullible, because they don't like to deny co-workers' requests. People in the former Soviet bloc countries are less trusting, perhaps because of their previous experiences with their countries' secret services.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Country, People, Secret

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• As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dangerous Situations, Secret, President

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

  Lawton Chiles

  Life, Evil, Secret

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• I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Presidential, Secret

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.

  Carol D. Leonnig

  Military, Two, White

  "Aides knew of possible White House link to Cartagena, Colombia, prostitution scandal". Article by Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura, www.washingtonpost.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Usa, Comedian

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 18, 2012

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• Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

  Herbert Hoover

  Morning, White, Games

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

  Clive James

  Kgb, Secret, Classic

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• Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Dirty, Doors, Fake

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• Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

  Colin Farrell

  Secret, Hollywood, Majesty

  "Nicky Hilton in splitsville; Lohan lashes out at dad; Kidman dating Hurley's ex?". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2004.

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• Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

  Eleanor Clift

  Worry, Secret, Enough

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• People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  People, Being Real, Promise

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• The Secret Service said there have been 40 fence-jumping incidents at the White House in the past five years. Half of them were intruders trying to get in. The other half was President Obama trying to get out.

  Conan O'Brien

  Past, White, Jumping

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• Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress.

  Argus Hamilton

  Sleep, Cupcakes, Secret

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• John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service.

  Andy Borowitz

  Men, Should Have, Secret

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Apr 27, 2012

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• It wouldn't be bad to have the Secret Service keeping an eye on my teenage daughter. I personally am not troubled by the fact that there would be a couple of big guys with earpieces beside her, just in case.

  Marco Rubio

  Daughter, Couple, Teenage

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• The Secret Service I'm really excited about because Matthew Vaughn directed it. I've done a couple of movies with him - Stardust, which is one of my favorite films, and Kick-Ass, which is just a crazy, wonderful movie.

  Mark Strong

  Couple, Crazy, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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