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I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.

Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.