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"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
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"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
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"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."
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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."
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"Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country."
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"In the world over, the very name of our country is immediately associated with the Parthenon."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""
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"So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing."
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"And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country."
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"Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
Ambiguity
"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."
Europe
"I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave."
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"The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task."
Difficulty
"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."
Intelligence
"When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests."
Compromise
"You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation."
Desperation
"By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter."
Question
"The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble."
Nation
"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."
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