Quotes

15 Inspirational Quotes By Valerie Plame
Posted on Fri Feb 23, 2018 Posted by Admin
1. I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush’s ear on the way to Obama’s inauguration to ask him to pardon ‘Scooter’ Libby and not to ‘leave a soldier on the battlefield’. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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2. The truth is, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not safe.
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3. These are issues we’ve been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It’s all about power and the abuse of power.
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4. Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now… that gender bias is built into the system, and it’s unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a ‘good girl’ and play by the rules.
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5. When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you’re not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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6. One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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7. If Russia did interfere in our election – and, by most accounts, they did – then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.
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8. I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world’s most ominous threat.
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9. Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I’m being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was – there were some dark days.
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10. Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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11. The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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12. Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That’s an unholy combination.
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13. Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
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14. Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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15. The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.