Porter Goss People Quotations

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.

that any one person or group of people could have prevented 9/11.

We are going to be in places people can't even imagine,

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 suspicion that maybe people are covering it up.

The need is obvious, ... As we start out today to do our job, we start out a little behind the curve because not enough people speak the languages we need. So we're looking for ways to fix that.

If you see an up-tic of electronic activity in a certain area, ... you might expect that something is happening. It might be a nuclear test, it might be conversations on cell phones, it might be people warming airplane engines, it might be people getting ready to test rockets.