Porter Goss Intelligence Quotations

Our intelligence -- the reason we have it in many forms around the world is to protect Americans at home and abroad, ... We do not fly legal lawful air missions in international space for the fun of it. We do it for our national security. Yes, there is, I suppose, some risk to all of this, but the fact of the matter is we need to have this surveillance. If there is a way we can do it differently that's less offensive to some people, then that might be a matter worth discussing.

Every day is a new day for the intelligence people. I would say that we are probably a couple of years away from getting through all the material and talking to all the people we need to talk to about exactly what was going on.

The nominations of Ambassador Negroponte and Gen. Hayden are welcome news and a critical step in continuing to strengthen our intelligence community and to create even better coordinated working relationships and communications between the agencies,

In the intelligence community, everyone does his job and you don't share the information unless there is a need to know. This could be a case where the right compartments didn't talk to each other.

CIA will have the authority to set standards for the entire intelligence community on things relating to (human espionage),