Decision making Quote by Frank Carlucci

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis…

— Frank Carlucci

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

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

— Bobby Ray Inman

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

People in charge of intelligence are political as well.

— Rick Santelli

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

“Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the…

— Richard Heuer

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

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

— Lewis B. Smedes

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

— Robert Mueller

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

— Benjamin Wittes