James Woolsey Quotes (15 Quotes)


    We were basically spying with one arm tied behind our back. These restrictive limitations on not being able to recruit people who have some violence in their past as spies were ridiculous.

    A single well-designed attack could send oil to well over 100 a barrel and devastate the world's economy. Oil dependence today creates serious and pressing dangers for the U. S. and other oil-importing nations.

    This was a sophisticated operation, ... They should start looking into the ownership of that boat that pulled alongside and blew up -- where it came from, what happened to the information after it arrived in Aden that the Cole was going to refuel.

    It's the type of war that relies on suicide bombings and mass killings of civilians. We are no longer in the business of opposing enemy battle fleets.

    They are looking hard for technology to get leverage with their conventional forces and to move more quickly than they have been able to in the past into the world of computers, electronics and so on.


    France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government, we'll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American companies work closely with them. If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi government to work with them.

    You can't expect the insurance industry to do something out of the goodness of its heart. But you might be able to combine incentives ... and regulation in a way that still lets the market work.

    One of the generals, I think, said yesterday that over 90 percent of the attacks that occurred in the country, including those outside the Sunni triangle, are coming from within that Sunni triangle. It's there that I think they really have to win the war.

    It's as if we were fighting with dragon for some 45 years and slew the dragon and then found ourselves in a jungle full of a number of poisonous snakes.

    We shouldn't call it a war on terrorism, we should call it a war on totalitarianism.

    The world -- and not just the United States -- has a problem with depending on the Middle East, and not just the Saudis, for such a large oil share, which creates a problem because of the instability in the area.

    We must encourage the commercialization of technologies that are compatible with existing infrastructure. What makes plug-in hybrids promising is that they are we don't need a Manhattan Project to make this happen.

    As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.

    It has to be looked at in the context of whether this interim agreement is a valuable agreement and if releasing Pollard ... contributes to it. That's a presidential decision. That's why the president makes the big bucks.

    They may well have been focusing more on Iraq and Iran and North Korea, ... And even if they had been focusing hard on this Indian test range, my hunch is that they wouldn't have gotten more than about a day or so worth of notice.


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