Distrust Quote by Aldrich Ames

The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of…

— Valerie Plame

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

— Bobby Ray Inman

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

— Rick Santelli

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument…

— Susan Sontag

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself…

— Mary Worley Montagu

My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they…

— Barack Obama

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

— John Ratcliffe

It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

— James Clapper

Intelligence is to provide the facts to us. The facts will usually take you to the truth. And then, when we get the truth,…

— Joe Manchin

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

— Mike Rogers