87 Secret Service Quotes

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I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. — Michael Reagan

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role. — Andy Borowitz

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service. - Chance the Rapper

I've never met Eminem; you don't meet Eminem. He has his own secret service. — Chance the Rapper

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. — Ian Fleming

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. — Sun Tzu

He who is not sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agent.s. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them. — Sun Tzu

No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all. — Tucker Carlson

The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them. — Taylor Hackford

We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended. — Harry Belafonte

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. - Elijah Wood

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. — Elijah Wood

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president. — Charlton Heston

When your mission is to restore honor and integrity to the White House, you've got to be willing to use any means necessary. — Paul Begala

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants. — Elvis Presley

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. — Mark Foley

Each and every Notary Public plays a crucial role in combating identity theft. They serve as our front line of defense and the public is safer because of the job they do. — Ken Salazar

Short Secret Service Quotes

  • Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. — Elbert Hubbard
  • That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. — Gore Vidal
  • First rule of bodyguard detail: know where your 'body' is at all times. — Ilona Andrews
  • Public service is my motto. — Al Capone
  • Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business. — Sun Tzu
  • There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country. — George W. Bush
  • Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords. — Pablo Neruda

Secret Service Image Quotes

Secret service quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

Secret Agent Quotes

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. — Sun Tzu

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. — Benjamin Disraeli

All women are natural born espionage agents. — Sayings

Secret service quote You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is
You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. — Joseph Conrad

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object. — J. I. Packer

We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service. — Eustace Mullins

Secret service quote You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself. — Gillian Anderson

Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent. — Conan O'Brien

Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent. — Sun Tzu

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff. — Josh Holloway

Secret Intelligence Quotes

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. — Maria Montessori

Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge like music, art, science To this end, I believe intelligent life might be evolution's secret weapon: the ultimate hack that might help us transcend entropy. — Jason Silva

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly. — Leonardo da Vinci

Secret service quote Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere. — Daniel Goleman

I love sexy, intelligent women. Sexiness is hard to define. Of course a woman can be beautiful, but I think it's something in the eyes. It's a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that's almost animalistic. — Ellen von Unwerth

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety. — Benjamin Graham

Secret service quote We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown
We all carry these things inside that no one can see. They hold us down like anchors and they drown us out at sea.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion. — Louisa May Alcott

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service? — Frederick Forsyth

and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. — Douglas Adams

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More Secret Service Quotes

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory

The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone. — William Howard Taft

Secret service quote People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, st
People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available. — Albert Einstein

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB — Clive James

I got invited to the White House, and I tried to sleep there overnight without permission. The Secret Service came to my house, and I had to talk to them. They legally couldn't do anything because I didn't do anything wrong, but they yelled at me like a principal. — Jake Paul

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world. — David Brainerd

According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918. — Eustace Mullins

Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service. — Earl Nightingale

The secret of life is in love the love of God and the service of humanity. — Sivananda

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. — Earl Nightingale

Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you. — Earl Nightingale

To obey the Lord unseen—in secret—is the foundation of genuine godly service. — K.P. Yohannan

Any physician who advertises a positive cure for any disease, who issues nostrum testimonials, who sells his services to a secret remedy, or who diagnoses and treats by mail patients he has never seen, is a quack. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away. — Conan O'Brien

Some Secret Service guys crashed a car into the White House. And they had been drinking when it happened. Actually, they hit a barrier trying to get to the White House. It's the same thing that is happening to Hillary. — David Letterman

[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country. — Peter Jennings

Hostess Bakery plants shut down due to a workers' strike. It was split up. The State Department hired all the Twinkies, the Secret Service hired all the HoHos, the generals are sleeping with the Cupcakes and the voters sent all the Ding Dongs to Congress. — Argus Hamilton

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege. — Lawton Chiles

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll. — Colin Farrell

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum. — Eleanor Clift

John Edwards is a tragic case of a man who ran for President when he should have joined the Secret Service. — Andy Borowitz

Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company. — Herbert Hoover

Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity. — Norm MacDonald

Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm. — T. Harv Eker

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious. — John Le Carre

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures. — Horst Koehler

I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front. — Tom Harkin

Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off. — David Letterman

Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot. — Cecily Strong

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures. — Horst Kohler

I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as anarchist, leftist, ostentatious or disguised Marxist, nihilist, explicit or secret anti-Marxist, technocrat in the service of Gaullism, new liberal and so on. — Michel Foucault

The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer. — S. D Gordon

The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home. — Tom Peters

The members of our secret service have apparently spent so much time under the bed looking for communists that they haven't had the time to look in the bed. — Michael Foot

The Eucharist is the secret of my day. It gives strength and meaning to all my activities of service to the Church and to the whole world. . . . Let Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament speak to your hearts. It is he who is the true answer of life that you seek. He stays here with us: he is God with us. Seek him without tiring, welcome him without reserve, love him without interruption: today, tomorrow, forever. — Pope John Paul II

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services. — Edward Felten

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours. — Sherman Austin

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. — John Sherman Cooper

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up. — Val Kilmer

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