Porter Goss

“Everybody knows that you've got to sell a product to a certain base. This is a presidential election, and you're selling a product.”

“There's a lot of things that you can do where you don't have to have a lot of money. You've just got to be smart and creative.”

“You cannot have a strong intelligence community without a strong C.I.A.”

“The job of the director of the CIA is to keep the country safe. It's a big job.”

“There are some who would like to see the CIA dismantled. I am not one of them.”

“Intelligence is a profession. It's not a political game.”

“We have to have the best intelligence in the world, and we have to have the ability to act on it.”

“The leakage of classified information is a problem that we have to deal with.”

“I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.”