John Lehman Quotes (9 Quotes)

There is a deep fundamental dysfunction in the way we gather intelligence and provide information to the decision-makers.

That attitude seemed only to feed the commission's growing appetite for reform. We've been struck, ... by a real difference between our interaction with the FBI and our interaction with the agency. The bureau ... has fundamentally admitted they're an agency that is deeply dysfunctional and broken ... whereas the attitude we kind of get from the CIA is ... 'Hey, you know, we're the CIA,' ... kind of a smugness and arrogance toward deep reform.

I think that it is in their interest to meet with us.

Contrary to the parlor-room Pershings around Washington, we have a fully integrated multi-service unified command structure.

This is the classic confrontation you see in Washington ... because the president now has been challenged directly by the leadership of the Congress and by the lobbyists and by the bureaucracy, ... American Morning.

everything we come out with, one side or the other seizes on to make a political point.

Now he's got to show who's in charge. And there's no doubt he can pass this. He can get it passed if he chooses to use his political capital and to hold accountable any members that obstruct this passage.

There was work to be done and somebody needed to do it. It was a load the family didn't need to be baring.

You have to have an olive branch, always. You have to have amnesties. You have to have a path always open to let the enemy back down, get off the limb, become reassimilated.