Dan Coats

I think it's our responsibility to provide you access to all that you mentioned.

I thought perhaps we ought to at least have a discussion about what do you do in a situation when you have the necessary intelligence to know that something terrible is going to happen to the American people in a very short amount of time.

I dreamt, I believed that life was a beauty, and I think that's what I was looking forward to. I awoke and found that life is a duty.

In the end, we follow the law, whatever it is, regardless of our personal opinions.

you will have the unique challenge of working for a President who has said comments that I believe at times have denigrated some of the work of the intelligence community.

If we didn't learn anything from these incidents, then shame on us.

Yes, where appropriate.

I do, and I've made that clear to the President and to his advisers, that that is where I stand.

I have found that statutory requirements, Executive Orders, directives, have added functions to the DNI...

So encryption has a very positive effect and is needed.

I want to make it very, very clear to all elements of the intelligence community that our job is to do our job, and our job is not to formulate policy, our job is not to influence intelligence in any way for political reasons; our job is…

Clearly, we are in a situation--we're not in a passive situation from a world threats standpoint.

I have been reassured time and time and time again from the President to his advisers that I'm welcome and needed and expected to be a part of the Principals Committee.

I think it's worth going back and looking at the original intent and then the reports from Robb-Silberman.

I will do my best to work to try to find out if we can get that number, but I need first to find out about why we can't get it.

I can absolutely say that I have no other obligation except to follow the law on that.

I went with some passion every week to the Senate floor 55 times to address a 'Certified Waste of the Week.'

I think that conversation has been going on, needs to continue going on.

The level of oversight here is all three branches of government, and it's significant to try to secure those privacies.

I think the transparency of what has happened is necessary for the American people so that when they make their judgments about future, whether future elections or whatever, they understand that there are outside forces trying to influence…

Our job is to provide the truth, and power goes to those people who are in a position to make those determinations, make policy, make corrections, make laws, et cetera.

We don't have time just to be the nice guy. We've got to go after it.

This is such a critical tool, I think it deserves full transparency to the level that we can while still protecting sources and methods and classified information.

My role is to provide you with the intelligence to formulate policy, not formulate policy, not be a spokesman for any political decisions that are made.

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