Covert Action Quotes

#1. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Ralph Ellison

#2. The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

Lou Ferrigno

#3. I wouldn't even know - and I spent three years in the CIA - I wouldn't even know how you'd start a covert action program in a place like Iran. It would be extraordinarily difficult.

Frank Carlucci

#4. Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

Henry Rollins

#5. My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Michael Hayden

#6. We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Cofer Black

#7. Justice, mercy, does Mars care for them?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Covert action is by definition outside the ambit of democracy.

Hodding Carter III

#9. Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

Haile Selassie

#10. I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

William Shakespeare

#11. I quite like being under the radar.

Alexander Hanson

#12. Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Henry Kissinger

#13. Silas?" She faces me and arches a brow. "I think my mother may be a bitch.

Colleen Hoover

#14. Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.

Klaus Fuchs

#15. The ISI is above all a paramilitary organization. It doesn't do all that much collection of intelligence. It's not a very good spy agency, but it's good at running covert action.

David Ignatius

#16. Every responsible chief in the CIA knows that the more covert the action, the greater the need for a clear policy and a defined target.

Tyler Drumheller

#17. The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

Christopher Hitchens

#18. Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.

Ralph McGehee