Attitude Quote by Malcolm Nance

The U.S. intelligence community is in a very poor position to be trusted with protecting civil liberties while engaging in intelligence work.

— Chelsea Manning

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

— Ai Weiwei

“Cultural intelligence is the “capability to function effectively across national, ethnic, and organizational cultures.”1”

— David Livermore

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

— David Ignatius

Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive.

— Gina Haspel

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they…

— Vernon A. Walters

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned…

— Noam Chomsky

This self-reflection, this willingness to examine ourselves, to make corrections, to do better, that's part of what makes us Americans. It's part of what…

— Barack Obama

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

— Ai Weiwei

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

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

— Bob Beckel

The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of…

— Peter Carey