"Neither did the hackers. I mean, they've developed, as well. And that's why this is a moving target."
"Intelligence by necessity, is something we keep out of the public eye."
"Do you know which agencies are not using NBIS right now?"
"I understand that. Let's say you open it up to 100 of them, right? And have them try to use it and then they give you feedback as to: We encountered this problem; we encountered that problem."
"I think we are entering, perhaps the beginning of a period of conflict, which doesn't necessarily always mean military conflict, but conflict nonetheless."
"The post-Cold War world is over, and there is an intense competition underway to determine what comes next."
"Under President Xi, the Chinese Communist Party has become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad in challenging the rules--based international order."
"I am really concerned about whether we can continue to afford to do some of the things that we are doing."
"General Secretary Xi Jinping is correctly regarded as the most ideological Chinese Communist Party leader since Mao Zedong."
"The PRC is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the power to do it."
"We have the very clear outlines of this emerging conflict: the U.S., the West, the democracies, and an alliance, the China-Russia Alliance."