Intelligence Services famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.
-- Steve Inskeep

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The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.
-- Trita Parsi

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I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true.
-- Roger Stone

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On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?
-- Frederick Forsyth

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A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
People keep comparing me to people, and I just ignore it.
Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.
I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.