Quotes from John Ratcliffe

The COVID-19 pandemic has cut short the lives of over 67,000 Americans. It has sickened over 1 million Americans, and it has impacted every one of us.

The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.

China's efforts to dominate 5G telecommunications will only increase Beijing's opportunities to collect intelligence, disrupt communications and threaten user privacy world-wide. I have personally told U.S. allies that using such Chinese-owned technology will severely limit America's ability to share vital intelligence with them.

Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails, designed to intimated voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump.

All of the threat streams that we have, from all aspects, militarily, economically, supply chain issues, foreign investment, technologically, cyber issues, cyber warfare, 5G, telecommunications - China is in all of those and they are the only country to be in that space and the only country that threatens America supremacy.

The documents I have declassified reveal that there are folks in the Biden - or, the Obama-Biden administration, senior national security folks that were aware of the fact that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign - no intelligence that supported that.

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

Well, the IG's role is to find facts, not to necessarily make conclusions.

China's leaders seek to subordinate the rights of the individual to the will of the Communist Party. They exert government control over companies and subvert the privacy and freedom of their citizens with an authoritarian surveillance state.

I briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of Congress with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times the frequency of Iran.

China should be America's primary national security focus going forward.

Many of China's major public initiatives and prominent companies offer only a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

The issue is why Russia is being so successful in shaking American confidence in the integrity of our elections. And the reason is, it's because Democrats keep perpetuating and accentuating and proliferating Russian propaganda for their political gain and for their political motivation against Donald Trump.

What I do know, as a former federal prosecutor, is, it does appear that there were crimes committed during the Obama administration.

I want to make it very clear, if confirmed as DNI, every whistleblower - past, present and future - will enjoy every protection under the law.

China has even conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities.

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power.

Will Hurd and I are very good friends. But we represent, as Republicans, very different constituencies. And so, not withstanding the fact that he and I are personally very good friends... we both realize that to represent our constituencies well, we're not going to be on the same side of certain issues. And that's okay.

Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or that we realized.

The intelligence is so clear that China is our greatest threat.

Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.

As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president. I oversee the intelligence agencies, and my office produces the President's Daily Brief detailing the threats facing the country.

Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.