Ray Cline Quotes

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

As an intelligence analyst you have to tell the president what you know, what you think you know and what you don’t know.

I'm a 'just the facts, ma'am' kind of guy.

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

No disrespect, but I don't make decisions based on opinions.

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.

Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational

When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

A scientist... must accept the results of experiment, and nothing but the results of experiment.

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

My colleagues have learned to respect nothing but evidence, and to believe that their highest duty lies in submitting to it, however it may jar against their inclinations.

The CIA should best serve the U.S. by being an unbiased reporter of the truth and if it were a fighting organization, that would affect its ability to analyze and report intelligence.

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Intelligence, like any other aspect of national security, has to be under civilian control.