Quotes About Security

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.

Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

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.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.

I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love him very much. I believe it's very important that parents have a personal connection with their children. It helps kids feel more secure, have a feeling of family, makes them feel loved.

IRAs are intended for retirement.

Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people.

As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.

Public discussion of how we determine al Qaeda intentions, I just - I can't see how that can do anything but harm the security of the nation.

People with malicious intentions will never succeed in disrupting the peace and harmony of India.

You know the interesting thing about encryption is that it cannot be secure just for some people.

Great interests demand great safeguards.

I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them.

We need to do everything in our power to assure the American people that the election system is secured and that outside forces will not interfere.