Peter Hoekstra Quotations

We are not in the business of maintaining our own set of contacts around the world, ... We can't do that ? not at all.

It's very difficult to do an honest appraisal of a lot of people's personal and professional performance without demeaning them, and to do it fairly and in hindsight.

...The leaks that we have seen in the intelligence community over the last 12 to 18 months have done irreparable harm to our ability to effectively conduct the war on terror,

It recognizes that much of this war ... is about winning the hearts and the minds of moderate Islam, and they are focused on it.

That doesn't necessarily mean let's go move the boxes again, ... restructuring fatigue.

he said. Asked why he, along with other members, refused to identify the panel's first witness, Hoekstra said, ''We probably have some overclassification situations of our own.

against reading too much into a single source of intelligence.

The CIA and the intelligence community failed this country pretty badly. That's why there's new leadership at the CIA. Change is not easy,

We see indications that the D.O.D. is trying to create parallel functions to what is going on in intelligence, but is calling it something else,

This is not where we normally get information, ... But Porter is more than willing - and encouraging - to take a serious look at these sources to see what value they might have.