Famous Quotes About intelligence

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

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.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.