{"author":"Michael Hayden","author_id":"Michael+Hayden","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"Apple and Google want to create encryption for which they could not provide you the key. Their business model will not survive if the American government has a special relationship with them that requires them to surrender this kind of information.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["business","government "],"id":4621,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["energy","security","new "],"id":10396,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"CIA relies on a partner's focus, linguistic agility, and cultural depth; in return, the partner benefits from CIA's resources, technology, and global view.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["focus","partner","view "],"id":20326,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["information","free","help "],"id":22522,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["community","culture "],"id":37895,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"I believe we do have a great intelligence service. Is it good enough in all circumstances? Of course not. We live in the human condition. We try to make it better each day.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["good","great","service "],"id":50463,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"'End strength' - the total number of government employees you can have at the end of the year. That's a separate exercise and requires independent energy, independent effort with the Congress to get the ceiling of your government employees raised.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["government","effort","end "],"id":65523,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["culture","legal","lawyers "],"id":74080,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["daily","service","page "],"id":76660,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"},{"text":"President Obama and his successors are dependent on the 100,000-plus people inside the American intelligence community - the people Edward Snowden betrayed.","author":"Michael Hayden","tags":["community","american","people "],"id":107600,"author_id":"Michael+Hayden"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}