Covert Action Quotes & Sayings

Covert action is by definition outside the ambit of democracy. — Hodding Carter III

If you're driving, don't forget your car. — Joe Elliott

It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are. — Slash

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

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy them do not survive because they observe the niceties of law. Subversives who shape world events by covert action and violence work in shadows and detest the light of day. — Stephen Kinzer

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

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage. — Benny Goodman

"Atheist" is quite clear in its meaning of "somebody without a belief in God." It is more complex in its usage since it has often been used to blacken anyone with the slightest doubt about the teachings of religion. — Jim Herrick

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too. — Paul Walker

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

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles. — Michael Mandelbaum

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

Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold paper; Mr. Morse had recently announced a way of transmitting messages down metal wires. Had you mentioned magic or Faerie to any of them, they would have smiled at you disdainfully, except, perhaps for Mr. Dickens, at the time a young man, and beardless. He would have looked at you wistfully. — Neil Gaiman

If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world. — Sami Gayle

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. — Cofer Black

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work. — Henry Kissinger

I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing. — Bruce Vilanch

Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity. — Evan Thompson

Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction. — CrimethInc.

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

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. — Ralph Ellison

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