Logo
Quote by Aldrich Ames
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founde

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they dont understand what the real problems are. – Aldrich Ames

Other quotes by Aldrich Ames

Foreign Ministry guys dont become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies. – Aldrich Ames

Category:
Intelligence
Author
Aldrich Ames
Read Quote

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late 70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agencys impact on American policy. – Aldrich Ames

Category:
Intelligence
Author
Aldrich Ames
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

I dont want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress. – Warren Christopher

Category:
Intelligence

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. – Victor Hugo

Category:
Intelligence

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. – Tom Robbins

Category:
Intelligence

Youll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time – it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. – Lee H. Hamilton

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something. – Ellie Goulding

Category:
Future

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. – Herbert Spencer

Category:
Marriage

Problems are solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee has to wait for a supervisors permission. – Jan Carlzon

Category:
Problems

Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba

Category:
Music