7 Quotes by Philip Agee

It is so ironic that the White House itself might be the first violator of this law, which, my name is attached to,

Well, I would like to see people ignore the law, that is to the degree the law doesn't have any meaning anymore,

The whole idea is to take a chance. I mean, what fun is life if you're not taking a chance. I've been taking chances for a long, long time. I took a lot of chances when I was in the CIA,

I'm not really interested in the case other than the way it might affect the law,

What the Agency [CIA] does is ordered by the President and the NSC [National Security Council]. The Agency neither makes decisions on policy nor acts on its own account. It is an instrument of the President.

But what counter-insurgency really comes down to is the protection of the capitalists back in America, their property and their privileges. U.S. national security, as preached by U.S. leaders, is the security of the capitalist class in the US, not the security of the rest of the people.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.