Dan Coats: “Not everyone calls me distinguished, but I am happy to yield to someone who does but also a good friend.”

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.

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

We have to figure this out.