Top 30 John Ratcliffe Quotes

I want to make it very clear, if confirmed as DNI, every whistleblower – past, present and future – will enjoy every protection under the law.

Well, the IG’s role is to find facts, not to necessarily make conclusions.

The Biden administration seems so intent on proving Trump wrong they are going to prove him right at the sake of national security, literally snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime… setting standards in the world marketplace.

The best job I ever had was to be the United States attorney and what I loved… it was an apolitical position. I stood up always to represent the United States of America. Never one party or another. And I very much view that as this role for the DNI.

Free and fair elections are a bedrock of American democracy, and the IC remains vigilant against the various activities by China, as well as other threat countries and actors, which seek to affect.

China believes that a global order without it at the top is a historical aberration. It aims to change that and reverse the spread of liberty around the world.

It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president. I oversee the intelligence agencies, and my office produces the President’s Daily Brief detailing the threats facing the country.

China should be America’s primary national security focus going forward.

Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or that we realized.

The intelligence is so clear that China is our greatest threat.

China poses a greater national security threat to the U.S. than any other nation – economically, militarily and technologically. That includes threats of election influence and interference.

The COVID-19 pandemic has cut short the lives of over 67,000 Americans. It has sickened over 1 million Americans, and it has impacted every one of us.

Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.

The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.

We don’t ever want to be in a position that we’re fighting uphill. We don’t want to looking up at China.

Whether its Republicans or Democrats, if they try to leverage the intelligence community for political gain, I won‘t allow it.

We’ve briefed hundreds of members of Congress to raise our concerns about China and its increased efforts to impact the U.S. policy climate in its favor.

The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.

The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don’t think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing‘s pursuit of power.

Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.

I briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of Congress with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times the frequency of Iran.

Many of China’s major public initiatives and prominent companies offer only a layer of camouflage to the activities of the Chinese Communist Party.

Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.

I am opposed to amnesty – period. But don’t just take my word on it. Ask any of the over 300 illegal aliens I arrested in a single day.

At the end of the day, you can’t impeach somebody over obstruction of justice where you use the wrong legal standard, a legal standard that doesn’t exist.

Americans have always risen to the moment, from defeating the scourge of fascism to bringing down the Iron Curtain.

The documents I have declassified reveal that there are folks in the Biden – or, the Obama-Biden administration, senior national security folks that were aware of the fact that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign – no intelligence that supported that.