Quotes About Intelligence Officers

#1. There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.

Sarah Vowell

#2. Journalists couldn't do their jobs overseas without taking risks, and the same is true for diplomats and intelligence officers.

David Ignatius

#3. Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

David Ignatius

#4. But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.

Stieg Larsson

#5. We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Mitt Romney

#6. The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

George Tenet

#7. Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.

Michael Morell

#8. Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored,

Yoweri Museveni

#9. I try to eat how your mother wanted you to eat when you were young.

Heather Morris

#10. Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

Hyman Bass

#11. I have never been much of a painter.

Christian Marclay

#12. For sixty years tens of thousands of clandestine service officers have gathered only the barest threads of truly important intelligence - and that is the CIA's deepest secret.

Tim Weiner

#13. It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

Martial

#14. Civilians listened to officers, which said a lot about the intelligence of civilians.

Tom Clancy

#15. Nor myrtle
which means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#16. The luxury of being half-asleep, exploring the fringes of psychosis in safety.

Ian McEwan

#17. He looks like a woman coach sometimes. I guess he's just trying to get into certain people's heads, but it won't work with me. Like a woman who coaches and cries all the time. He can't get in my head. He's a crybaby.

Shaquille O'Neal

#18. All officers of the Intelligence Community, and especially its most senior officer, must conduct themselves in a manner that earns and retains the public trust. The American people are uncomfortable with government activities that do not take place in the open, subject to public scrutiny and review.

Dennis C. Blair

#19. His words had fingers, and as he spoke, they drifted down my body, fondling me and arousing me.

C.D. Reiss

#20. I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down.

Ernest Hemingway,

#21. This time, there was the ghost of a reptile in Szatson's smile. 'I don't handle little problems.

Whitley Strieber

#22. What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks 'the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,'.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.

Maya Angelou