“Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and...” — Jim Ramstad Quote

“Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.”

“Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.”

“My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.”

“I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.”

“The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.”

“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”