I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100, 000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

It's good to remind intelligence producers and consumers alike about the need to 'warn of emerging conditions, trends, threats and opportunities' and the potential for discontinuities.

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The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

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I want to take some of the ideas that worked when my husband was president, and we ended up with 23 million new jobs and incomes went up for everybody.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

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Like a good marriage, trust on a team is never complete; it must be maintained over time.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.