Kiriakou Quotes

#1. How could she do it? How could she do this to me?

Julie Ann Walker

#2. Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Alice Hoffman

#3. The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.

John Kiriakou

#4. It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up to the CIA and it's up to the FBI to recruit foreign - I mean to recruit human sources, rather, to penetrate these groups.

John Kiriakou

#5. We've got to prove that we can lead, and I'm going to be all-in to help prove that.

Dan Webster

#6. The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed to be a paramilitary force. It's not good at it. It needs to return to its roots.

John Kiriakou

#7. There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

Johann Lamont

#8. But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#9. Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks.

John Kiriakou

#10. If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.

John Kiriakou

#11. I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

John Kiriakou

#12. I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

Mike Wallace

#13. Can really rescue you, and you have to do something. Not knowing what you want to

Meg Jay

#14. If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up - she has a lover! If a woman carries her head straight - she has a lover! And actually, if a woman has a head, she has a
lover!

Faina Ranevskaya

#15. I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

Christoph Waltz

#16. I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

John Kiriakou

#17. Makes me nervous on about five different levels. "Oh, no. He frosted under heavy guard. He's still under lock and key. But I've talked to him," Haymitch says. "Face-to-face?

Suzanne Collins