After great consideration of this report and its conclusions, I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers,
More Quotes from Porter Goss:
there are some very hard aspects of this that take longer. We are an overseas organization. We are an organization that requires what I would call sacrifice of quality of life. ... We are looking for specific people that we think will fit our needs. And that means an aggressive recruiting effort.Porter Goss
Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,
Porter Goss
Things are going a lot better than the press has been reporting on virtually all fronts. We're going to be there for a while. It is dangerous, it is dirty, it is hot, it is not pleasant, but it is moving forward and the strategic doubt does not exist.
Porter Goss
We cannot afford to make changes blindly, or in unnecessary haste,
Porter Goss
We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of our officers out of Washington. We do not serve our policy-makers if we are not in the places that they need us to be today and are not reporting from places they don't expect us to be -- but where they may need us to be tomorrow.
Porter Goss
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,
Porter Goss
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: conveneI'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
A. J. Foyt
I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.
Vladimir Kramnik
God is sufficient in all ages for His church.
John Nelson Darby