“That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.”
– Stephen Hadley
“First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.”
– Pat Roberts
“But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.”
– Pierre Laval
“Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.”
– Peter Pace
“You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.”
– Bobby Ray Inman
“The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.”
– Cofer Black
“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.”
– Markus Wolf
“I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service.”
– Markus Wolf
“The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.”
– Bill Nelson
“Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It’s great. The problem is there’s a million dots at the time.”
– Louis Freeh
“I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.”
– Alexander Mackenzie
“Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?”
– Peter Schuyler
“And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.”
– Louis Freeh
“I’m inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.”
– Brad Delson
“If you look at the publishers I’ve worked with, generally, they’re a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I’ve worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.”
– Peter Sotos
“I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.”
– Jeff Sessions
“We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.”
– Cofer Black
“So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I’m really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.”
– Jane Harman
“The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.”
– Chauncey Wright
“The Committee’s review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.”
– Jane Harman
“A lot of the things that we’ve been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.”
– Jane Harman
“We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.”
– Jane Harman
“I can’t be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.”
– Linda Hunt
“Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.”
– Godfried Danneels
“The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.”
– Gloria Naylor
“By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.”
– George Tenet
“The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.”
– John Pistole
“When I came to the CIA in the mid-’90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.”
– George Tenet
“As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.”
– George Tenet
“To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.”
– George Tenet