Community Quote by John Ratcliffe

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

— Anonymous

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

— James Clapper

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

— Bobby Ray Inman

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares…

— Ambrose Bierce

Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe…

— James Clapper

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

— John O. Brennan

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it…

— John le Carre

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 will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and…

— John O. Brennan

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

Our intelligence agencies have vast powers, and Obama used them illegally to spy on political opponents. This can't be allowed to stand.

— Tom Fitton

Woe to you who insults the intelligence community, if you're president.

— David Brooks