Quotes from James Clapper

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause.

In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.

A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.

The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.

The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.