63 Quotes by George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

His network is now answering to the world for years of nuclear profiteering,

I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that,

lawless zones, veritable no man's lands ... where extremist movements find shelter and can win the breathing space to grow.

Over the next 15 years ... our cities will face ballistic missile threats from a wider variety of actors -- North Korea, probably Iran and possibly Iraq,

Let me say this. I'm the Director of -- I'm the Director of Central Intelligence. The President of the United States sees me six days a week, every day. I tell him what the American intelligence community believes,

When I took on this job I had a set of conditions to do it because I was essentially taking on the moral hazard, as I've referred to it, for the CIA. That is, it was a CIA conclusion that there were weapons.

We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will.

We know that they will continue to plan, ... We know that they will hurt us again. We have to minimize, we have to minimize, we have to minimize their ability to do so because there is no perfection in this business.