Dan Coats: “The reality is that, probably, we're not going to get to the numbers the administration has proposed.”

We have to figure this out.

We can create a discipline, a way of thinking about these challenges.

I believe the top of the list will be to reinforce the prime imperative for our Nation's Intelligence Community: to find the truth and to speak truth to power, without fear of political retribution.

I would argue that ours is not working very well and it is--at the moment.