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"The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands."
"If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!"
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
"Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!"
"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
Explore more quotes by Aldrich Ames
"In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy."
"I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism."
"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
"The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent."
"To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that."
"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."
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