"When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency."

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Source : Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

George Tenet

#Men Quotes #Agency Quotes #Years Quotes

“Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.”
“A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.”
“Enobaria smiles at Johanna. 'Don't look so smug,' says Johanna. 'We'll kill you anyway.”
“Of nothing comes nothing: springs rise not above Their source in the far-hidden heart of the mountains: Whence then have descended the Wisdom and Love That in man leap to light in intelligent fountains?”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1874). “The Emigrant's Story: And Other Poems”, p.103
“I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.”
“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.”
“... the winner is the one who believes in victory more.”
“The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures in the US annually is 783,936.......while 553,251 died of cancer.”

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