Central Intelligence Agency Quotes

There are a lot of weak people out there who will say almost anything they think a prosecutor wants them to say to save their skins.

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them.

If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

If the person does not feel guilt he is not in his own mind guilty and will not confess …. Confession in such a case can come only with duress.

In 'Casino,' there was this scene where Bob De Niro tape-records Sharon Stone's phone call. Then he asks her about where she's going, and he catches her in a lie. It was a great scene, especially for Bob's work, but we found that, in light of the whole film, it wasn't needed.

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Unless your name is Jack Bauer, you cannot make people talk.

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.

Tactics are manipulative.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

Anyone will say anything under torture.

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

All warfare is based on deception.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

All confrontation is based on deception.