“My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, the...” — Valerie Plame Quote

“My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.”

“We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.”

“The human and environmental devastation caused by nuclear weapons - whether by testing, mistake or malice - is the very reason we need to eliminate them altogether.”

“I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows.”

“I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.”

“I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.”