David E. Sanger Quotes

American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.

In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

Some of the best fan mail I get are from our men and women in the military and intelligence communities. They say, 'Boy you do your homework, this is exactly how we're doing it.'

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.

What a jolly thing military surveillance is!

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

Anyone who tells you he deals with the CIA is either a fool (for admitting it) or a braggart.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

I'm very thankful to live in a country where the government provides my protection - many police and armored cars and safe houses and things like that.

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

In the Chinese view, the United States has designed its own system of rules about what constitutes 'legal' spying and what is illegal.

The hospital room of a cabinet official is exactly the type of target ripe for surveillance by a foreign power.

I worked for GCHQ, which stands for Government Communications Headquarters, and is the equivalent of the NSA here in the U.S.

I held top-secret security clearance.

FISA is one of the most important investigative tools we've got in preventing our adversaries from harming our country.

I think that whether I can be a Russian spy is being investigated by U.S. government since they learned about Sci-Hub, because that is very logical: a Russian project, that uses university accounts to access some information, of course that is suspicious. But in fact Sci-Hub has always been my personal enterprise.

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

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

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.