Michael Hayden Quotes
- Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended…
- There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the…
- The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.
- This program has been successful in detecting and preventing attacks inside the United States.
- I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and their security. I noted that the…
- When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that…
- Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the…
- My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to…
- Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security…