Failure Quote by Barack Obama

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

— Will Cuppy

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel…

— Gloria Naylor

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the…

— James Clapper

The government would assert that individuals who are aware of serious wrongdoing in the intelligence community should bring their concerns to the people most…

— Edward Snowden

When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be…

— Barack Obama

Officials are human beings, and sometimes we all make mistakes.

— Sadio Mane

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

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't…

— Aldrich Ames

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

— Frank Carlucci

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

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

— Bertolt Brecht