Michael Hayden quote: "Xi agreed to the American definition of legitimate espionage. In other words, you don't use the power of the state to steal secrets for profit."

I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to so...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

My personal view is that Iran, left to its own devices, will get itself to that step right below a n...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Chairman Chaffetz was an enthusiastic supporter of the 'USA Freedom Act,' designed to rein i...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Cong...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to su...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

At the end of the 30 Years War then, Europe broadly decided to separate the sacred from the secular ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, in...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

My life experience confirms that the U.S. government frequently overclassifies data. But that's ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I don't want to be overly dramatic, but Iraq and Syria are gone, and they aren't coming back...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

One of the things that distinguishes the CIA from the State Department is that the CIA is both asked...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their busin...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of Americ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasona...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The first thing I did after getting a Master's degree - and the Air Force was very kind; they le...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

ISIS is a learning enemy, and former Deputy Director of NSA Chris Inglis says that they have gone to...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

American political elites feel very empowered to criticize the American intelligence community for n...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

In the Cold War, a lot of Soviet actions could be explained as extensions of Czarist imperial ambiti...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I a...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very careful...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

One might oppose the CIA program, but Abu Ghraib it ain't.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I told them that free people always had to decide where to draw the line between their liberty and t...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I don't know if the European Union contributes a great deal to espionage. At the union level, th...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith was equally insistent in 2002-2003 about an operational relatio...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran had paused its nuclear weaponization work als...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Dissenting analysts passionate about their positions are not unusual in the American intelligence co...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100,000-plus people inside the American inte...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I'm not hugging the Guantanamo location, but our right to hold people under the laws of war as e...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When I was in government, what we would used to mystically call 'the kinetic option' was way...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I know of no government official who would welcome an army of inspectors general combing through fou...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

A defendant who commences and continues to build a project, while a lawsuit is pending which challen...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The cost of campaigning is growing tremendously. If we are in a contentious primary, the primary cou...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

We are not out there as a vacuum cleaner, ... We don't have that capability and we don't want that c...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I blame the Russians for a lot, but pinning the creation of ISIS on them is a murky, tenuous, triple...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

The costs were greater than anticipated to the tune of, I would say, hundreds of millions, ... The s...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

A significant U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan has been continuous since October 2001, and Preside...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThre...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions sha...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened - the Olym...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.
MICHAEL HAYDEN

For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

When at the CIA, I was fond of saying that many jihadis join the movement for the same reasons that ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest crit...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have com...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Before he played CIA Director Saul Berenson on 'Homeland,' a much younger Mandy Patinkin gai...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing ...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

'Islamist terrorism.' The very phrase is contentious. No one wants to make this problem hard...
MICHAEL HAYDEN

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I've had the ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just beca...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog...
HAYDEN FRY

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how th...
TOM HAYDEN

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of histo...
TOM HAYDEN

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the ...
TOM HAYDEN

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than y...
STERLING HAYDEN

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. Ther...
TOM HAYDEN

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of differen...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy b...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

One of the things that I miss the most about cricket and batting in particular is that meditation of...
MATTHEW HAYDEN

When you watch the first 'American Pie' movie, you're like... 'I know that jock who&...
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

One of the things that made 'American Pie' great was also the sexiness of it.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imit...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

We want people to be as up to date as possible.
BILL HAYDEN

We believe it's an important health issue.
BILL HAYDEN

will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuin...
BILL HAYDEN

People should be concerned about this information. That's why we want to have steps taken immediatel...
BILL HAYDEN

We need to come out strong and stay strong, because at the end it didn't play out the way we wanted ...
BILL HAYDEN

Our main concern is to reduce mercury. We look at it clearly as a toxic chemical. We've been doing m...
BILL HAYDEN

In each case it was just a few dozen, but it's enough that we do want to take a closer look at it.
BILL HAYDEN

This is a long-term problem and we know it will take a while to fix.
BILL HAYDEN

All together, we played more as a team.ÃƒÂ‚Ã‚Â It seemed to come together at the end, but...
BILL HAYDEN

They looked at a number of scenarios for operating the plant, and they could not come up with anythi...
BILL HAYDEN

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
STERLING HAYDEN

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wro...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
TOM HAYDEN

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m...
HAYDEN FRY

When it's football season, I'm all football.
HAYDEN FRY

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had th...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

When I came to the high-performance arena, I was kind of a one-off in a lot of ways. I was as much a...
MATTHEW HAYDEN

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started ...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?
TOM HAYDEN

That stands out as one of my proudest moments because he was my idol and my mentor.
CATHERINE HAYDEN

My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from can...
DAVID HAYDEN

Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

Farmers that can store and dry their own corn have forward priced corn at $2.90 per bushel.
CARL HAYDEN

For the past few years, I've grown more and more concerned about the things my children are being ex...
AMY HAYDEN

We tend to feed the ones we love. It's a way of nurturing them.
AMY HAYDEN

You've got some hotel rooms facing into that area. It could be a pretty rude awakening for some hote...
ANNE HAYDEN

We are very picky about the quality of water we use, so if we were not happy with the quality, we wo...
ANNE HAYDEN

We're not happy about this. We're not trying to minimize it.
ANNE HAYDEN

He got off the mark with such an emphatic stroke and it just went on and on from there. I'm quite ha...
MATTHEW HAYDEN

There's still the fan support, still the community support and still the district support. It's all ...
BETSY HAYDEN

The football numbers are huge, especially for modified. We weren't sure what to expect. There was a ...
BETSY HAYDEN

I think it's big. We're a small community and sports are huge here. Just look at the Friday night fo...
BETSY HAYDEN

We could do the highways now, and it would be a boon to the city. It wouldn't take a rocket scientis...
WALTER HAYDEN

I didn't have any idea what happened to Ivory. I assumed he went back to California.
HAYDEN FRY

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that...
STERLING HAYDEN

I've always been kind of a hermit.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Har...
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG

The ones that arrive latest have traveled the farthest from the point of ejection. The energy and an...
CARL HAYDEN

The number of possible electronic states is very large.
CARL HAYDEN

Couples have to create an organizational system that makes sense to both of them. If it makes sense ...
RUTH HAYDEN

If I were George W. Bush, I would be terrorized by the eyes of those scruffy-looking veterans, the s...
TOM HAYDEN

It's been a really worthwhile test, ... We worked on getting into the corners a bit quicker and we m...
NICKY HAYDEN

We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over ...
NICKY HAYDEN

It's been a really worthwhile test and we've achieved a lot. We've got the machine much better turni...
NICKY HAYDEN

The race is always what's important. Qualifying now is so important. You have so many riders, so clo...
NICKY HAYDEN

Things are steadily coming better, but I'm having problems with a few places on the track.
NICKY HAYDEN

Overall, I'm happy with the way it felt. There were a few places that I was faster, but I didn't get...
NICKY HAYDEN

I mean, you can?t spot a guy like that a second around this track with only a few laps to go. That w...
NICKY HAYDEN

It takes one of the arrows out of our quiver, as it were.
FREDERICK HAYDEN

I wish they taught green screen acting classes.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

They're going to get better as the season goes on. Next year, I'll be chopping at the bit to watch t...
RUSS HAYDEN

We face a severe shortage of dentists, for example, ... It would work for veterinarians, too.
MIKE HAYDEN

I have officially endorsed no one, ... I feel it's too soon.
TOM HAYDEN

. . . your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/...
ROBERT HAYDEN

It's an extraordinary commentary on what the Internet can do, ... opening the crossroads around the ...
DAVID HAYDEN

Howard spent a year marketing Sirius as uncensored radio. There is something so unethical about this...
CHAUNCE HAYDEN

All together, we played more as a team. It seemed to come together at the end, but it couldn't get...
BILL HAYDEN

She's a professional duct tape cutter.
HAYDEN ALLRED

When I talked with an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got h...
HAYDEN FRY

He's truly one of the great filmmakers, and just a visionary storyteller, ... So to get to sort of b...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the batt...
TOM HAYDEN

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of histo...
TOM HAYDEN

Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we sh...
TOM HAYDEN

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for...
TOM HAYDEN

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will...
TOM HAYDEN

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.
TOM HAYDEN

The plate is in fair territory and the player never left the plate. It hit off the plate and stayed ...
HAL HAYDEN

That's not dirt. That's trampled down dog doo.
LINDA HAYDEN

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more ...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

Episode III.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

Last time I was here, I went up to the archives and got shown around, and there was the dark helm, ....
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

People will be able to watch it as one linear story, which was George's original intention.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

My stroke-rate was really slow this morning, but I was going as fast as I could. I knew the only way...
BRENT HAYDEN

I consider this a building block for the Commonwealth Games. It's nice to beat Neethling but I would...
BRENT HAYDEN

I was pretty nervous. I though I had a far shot at the medal. My plan was to keep going hard and hit...
BRENT HAYDEN

I hated meatloaf. It was like something that Satan pooped out after an eternity of constipation. So ...
HAYDEN THORNE

I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all.
STERLING HAYDEN

Water keeps hogs cool during the summer months, and the hogs use mud to help protect their skin from...
DAVID HAYDEN

My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the i...
DAVID HAYDEN

Messaging is the killer app for mobile data services,
DAVID HAYDEN

Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time...
DAVID HAYDEN

Because of the many problems hogs create, we want to see the sportsmen in Alabama take as many hogs ...
DAVID HAYDEN

Hogs cause trouble for other wildlife,
DAVID HAYDEN

He meant so much to us and I don't like to use the word teacher or professor because he was so much ...
CATHERINE HAYDEN

I went to a presentation that showed that three-quarters of the streams in the western part of the s...
MIKE HAYDEN

All together, we played more as a team. It seemed to come together at the end, but it couldn't get...
BILL HAYDEN

I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
TOM HAYDEN

I love my mother Ali so much. I'm a momma's boy. I just have a very cool mom. It's not a...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

I first tried to sell them with no pockets for $3, and they didn't sell.
HAYDEN ALLRED

One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
STEVE HAYDEN

The truth of the matter was that the blacks would have had to be relocated and no one wanted us.
WALTER HAYDEN

Until now, searching the Web has lacked the power of intuition, ... We have built an industry-compat...
DAVID HAYDEN

Definitely it was quite fun. When it?s like that, the bike?s working, the bike has got grip, and the...
NICKY HAYDEN

Tomorrow is going to be really tough because there are a lot of guys going really fast ... right now...
NICKY HAYDEN

I was hoping to go under (one minute) 29.5 and it is quite fun when the bike is working and the lap ...
NICKY HAYDEN

It's second place and it does take something away from it,
NICKY HAYDEN

This morning we came out really strong,
NICKY HAYDEN

I'm so happy to be to be on the podium,
NICKY HAYDEN

I'm so happy to be to be on the podium today. Before the race things weren't going to plan. In the m...
NICKY HAYDEN

It's not the way I want to move up the tables, ... I want a proper podium and that's what I'll be wo...
NICKY HAYDEN

Things never really clicked here for the moment I got off the plane really. Seemed like I was on the...
NICKY HAYDEN

We spent a lot of time working with the new chassis today and testing some improved parts that Honda...
NICKY HAYDEN

Nicky also improved the setting of the machine, which will help him in the remaining six races.
NICKY HAYDEN

It's been a really worthwhile test and we've achieved a lot. We've got the machine much better turn...
NICKY HAYDEN

Everything felt really good today with the bike and the grip,
NICKY HAYDEN

I enjoyed running at that pace, I tried to just hang on to Valentino,
NICKY HAYDEN

I do enjoy battling with Valentino. It doesn't get any better than him and it just feels good to kno...
NICKY HAYDEN

I needed to get a good start. It just wasn't as comfortable, my pace wasn't as fast.
NICKY HAYDEN

Today I rode the new bike all day and we made some good progress. It was the first time we've had ch...
NICKY HAYDEN

I'm looking forward to this end part of the season, ... Riding the bike in Japan for a factory Hond...
NICKY HAYDEN

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inqui...
STERLING HAYDEN

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.
HAYDEN FRY

It's so funny, the way we found out about it,
CHAUNCE HAYDEN

It is very difficult to talk about plagiarism in terms of themes between novels. Otherwise there wou...
DAVID HAYDEN

If he could touch one more life, even after death, it would be worth it.
CATHERINE HAYDEN

Vexis stopped crying. She now looked more annoyed than anything. She feigned like she was trying to ...
C.M. HAYDEN

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do y...
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN

Indianapolis got the money, and you see where Indianapolis is, but we missed the boat. The city itse...
WALTER HAYDEN

I put in work for my neighborhood. Hundreds of bills, measures, budget items, and hearings. I always...
TOM HAYDEN

In Miami, there were only a couple thousand protesters in a city that is heavily Republican and incl...
TOM HAYDEN

I was for Gore. I thought that Gore and the Democrats were pretty clueless as to what Nader and the ...
TOM HAYDEN

There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lac...
TOM HAYDEN

The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience a...
TOM HAYDEN

Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.
TOM HAYDEN

It takes a certain kind of bravery and a certain kind of goodness to be able to not just put your de...
TOM HAYDEN

The only possibility of reform in Los Angeles, which is a 'see no, hear no evil' city, is if there i...
TOM HAYDEN

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The l...
TOM HAYDEN

I estimate a very conservative number of 25,000 dead homeboys. If 25,000 white people were killed in...
TOM HAYDEN

Xi agreed to the American definition of legitimate espionage. In other words, you don't use the power of the state to steal secrets for profit.

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