Cia Guy Quotes

#1. Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy' ... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

Robert M. Gates

#2. I as a Muslim believe deeply in the differences that are within Islam. But I also take seriously the idea that we have to come to know one another.

Eboo Patel

#3. [S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power
to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

Ayn Rand

#4. Quickness is the essence of the war.

Sun Tzu

#5. Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

Novalis

#6. The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Dinaw Mengestu

#7. For the record, I am so turned on by your elbow patches, I'm coming out of my skin over here.

Alice Clayton