Quotes About Covert Operations

#1. The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

Bob Tyrrell

#2. Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame are not normal, everyday malware, of course. All three of them were most likely developed by a Western intelligence agency as part of covert operations that weren't meant to be discovered. The fact that the malware evaded detection proves how well the attackers did their job.

Mikko Hypponen

#3. Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

Sara Sheridan

#4. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.

George W. Bush

#5. It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can't really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.

Ally Carter

#6. In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.

Frank Church

#7. The glorious light is sunshine.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The denials, if they need be given, could better be given with sincerity, and they could only be feigned if you didn't know them at all.

Kenneth Eade

#9. You came alive for a moment. I'm curious why." "I was imagining your death.

Becca Abbott

#10. You can't improve what you are not managing, you can't manage what you are not measuring, and you can't measure what you are not focusing.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Life can be hard at times. People can be hard on each other. Being hard on yourself is completely unnecessary.

Ron Baratono

#12. Give a man a chance to save a damsel before you get all upset." He

Aria Cole

#13. Ordering and taking delivery on the supplies and other things they needed took ingenuity and finesse, but both were Win's specialty. Contraband that would set off an alarm if ordered from unauthorized sources would simply be "misdelivered" to the SD where he would pick it up after-hours.

Marcha A. Fox

#14. Charisma
the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves

Paulo Coelho