Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

- Anthony Lewis

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

- Bob Graham

When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

- Charles McCarry

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

- Dean Norris

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

- George H. W. Bush

In the 1960s, after the Cuban Revolution, CIA and FBI agents often coordinated their activities with anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

- Greg Grandin

Let's remember, the CIA's job is to go out and create wars.

- Jesse Ventura

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

- Leon Panetta

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.

- Michelle Rodriguez

It doesn't take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

- Noam Chomsky

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

- Robert Harris

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.

- Robert M. Gates

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

- Steven Seagal