77 Quotes by Porter Goss

I think our safeguards are in place and are working,

You just don't end up with a satellite up there that suddenly, magically gives you the kind of information you want to hear or see because you want it today. If you haven't planned for it about seven years ago, it probably isn't going to happen,

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington,

We know that Chinese officials chose to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 1996 re-election of the Clinton administration. What we don't know is what they expected to gain from that investment,

Unilateral operations will return to be part of the governing paradigm for the CIA,

To be cut out at the eleventh hour is annoying, and it's certainly not helpful,

We are definitely going to be using new cover arrangements overseas, because we have to,

There is ... a very strong inclination by the current conservative leadership of Iran to make sure they can live up to the same levels as some of their neighboring countries, and some of those neighboring countries, indeed Pakistan comes to mind, have the bomb.