Barack Obama Quotes

Are there topics of sufficient import to the nation's well-being to replace the Soviets as the focus of U.S. intelligence?

National security, both internal and external, is a challenge.

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.

Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

There is still much to be done by our intelligence community to bring its achievements up to an acceptable level.

To preserve our security in a dangerous century, vigilance is not enough. National Intelligence must do more.

I had never seen a trace of a threat to the national security from the publication.

We should be adult enough to understand that major countries are going to be spying on us.

[Referring to the CIA:] We coexist. They work, and we work.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

Intelligence isn’t just something for the Cold War. When you think of Pearl Harbor, you can understand why. Unpleasant surprises are out there.

We want our spying agencies spying on foreigners. That’s why we have them.

Many threats to the homeland begin overseas, and that's where we need to be.

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.

I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.

From my experience as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, if a congressperson is identified as a potential target by a foreign intelligence service, that individual is notified.

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.

The U.K. is at the heart of intelligence gathering with our allies to call out hostile activity.

Before I was elected to represent southwestern Texas in the U.S. Congress, I spent almost a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA. I served in places where Russia has geopolitical interests, and learned that Russia has one simple goal: to erode trust in democratic institutions.