#sec

When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. ↗

— John Perkins

#culture #day #detector #found #immediately

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. ↗

— Anne Perry

#challenge #find #i #i am #marvelous

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating. ↗

— Katy Perry

#block #chopping #devastating #female #female artists

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention. ↗

— Luke Perry

#detention #fake #friends #get #gun

It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#comfortable #fun #having #job #like

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#because #being #believing #change #change the world

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself. ↗

— David Petraeus

#advanced #afghanistan #aspirations #capacity #countries

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#bob #disappointing #dylan #even #good