Dan Coats

likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond.

We do not believe Iran is currently undertaking activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device.

ISIS is intent on resurging and still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria.

We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime…

We currently assess that North Korea will seek to retain its WMD capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime…

What we see is the Russians are looking for every opportunity regardless of party, regardless of whether or not it applies to the election to continue their pervasive efforts to undermine our fundamental values.

We need to inform the American public that this is real, that is going to be happening and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we're not going allow some Russian to tell us how to vote, how we ought to run our country. And I…

The intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming U.S. elections, both the mid-terms and presidential elections of 2020. In regards to the Russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a…

the warning lights are blinking red

The warning lights are blinking red.

The President needs to say that and act like it.

The evidence is overwhelming. It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that Russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us in 2016.

I don't know what happened in that meeting. I think as time goes by, President has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, I think we will learn more, but that is the President's prerogative. If you'd asked me how that…

I don't know what happened in that meeting. I think as time goes by and the president has already mentioned some things that happened in that meeting, I think we will learn more. But that is the president's prerogative. If he had asked me…

As long as I feel I can seek the truth and speak the truth, that he will stay in this job.

the warning lights are blinking red again

We stand by our intelligence.

We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy, and we will continue to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our…

In regards to state actions, Russia has been the most aggressive foreign actor, no question. And they continue their efforts to undermine our democracy. The warning signs are there. The system is blinking, and it is why I believe we are at…

this is -- I want to raise an alarm here that we have been attacked. This is a really serious problem.

I do believe there is real concern that we take action, because we're seeing the results of our adversaries using cyber to degrade any number of things here in the United States.

We currently face the most complex, volatile, and challenging threat environment in modern times.

It is evermore important that we remain vigilant to the range of threats worldwide as we seek to do all we can to provide security to the American people.

We have made--drawn a very clear line: North Korea has to agree to not possess nuclear capability.

We have entered a period that can best be described as a race for technological superiority against our adversaries.