“I'm "crushable." That was the craziest thing. They called me "crushable" on some website.” Quote by Alex Shaffer
“I've written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn't concerned when I wrote them who would see them and how those movies would especially affect young people.” PeopleYoungWrittenConcernedSmoking Author:Chris Hayes
“I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.” ThinkingPoliticalFeltWallSceneSmokingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessMilitantSmokers Author:Chris Hayes
“Screenwriting Joe Eszterhas have always talked about the charm of evil.” EvilCharmScreenwriting Author:Chris Hayes
“The truth of the matter is, we can certainly fight against terrorism and fight terrorist groups around the world without having to give up our own civil liberties. They're not mutually exclusive.” WorldGivingMatterFightingLibertyGroupsGiving UpTerrorismTerroristAround The WorldExclusiveCivil LibertiesTerrorist Groups Author:John Kiriakou
“It's not up to Google, it's not up to Apple to turn over our personal communications in order to save the country. It's up to the CIA and it's up to the FBI to recruit foreign - I mean to recruit human sources, rather, to penetrate these groups.” HumansMeanCountryOrderTurnsGroupsCommunicationSourceApplesGooglePenetrateCiaFbiRecruit Author:John Kiriakou
“The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's not supposed to be a paramilitary force. It's not good at it. It needs to return to its roots.” NeedsForceSecretReturnRootsOrganizationStealingSupposed To BeTransformedSpyCiaRecruit Author:John Kiriakou
“If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.” IfsNeedsOrderGroupsMessagesTerroristRelyApplesGoogleSpyCiaTerrorist AttacksRecruit Author:John Kiriakou
“Immediately after the September 11th attacks, I volunteered to go to Afghanistan in any capacity that the CIA wanted me. Four months passed before I was able to go overseas, just because my skill set was not one that was important in those really early days after the attacks.” ImportantAbleWantedFourMonthsSkillsCapacityAfghanistanSeptemberCiaSeptember 11September 11th Author:John Kiriakou
“I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.” SaidTwoJobsGivenWeekMarriedCiaGetting MarriedProspects Author:John Kiriakou
“It's much less romantic in that you have to go to www.cia.gov and click "Apply Now." For me it was much more clandestine.” CiaClicksClandestine Author:John Kiriakou