Let's run the clock back to 1933, which is really what I was trying to address, and in 1933, what did we see in Germany ? A cult of personality, a cult of nationalism, a cult of grievance, a press operation that looked like and was the ministry of propaganda and then the punishing of marginalized groups.

Michael Hayden

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It's not that they're being leaned on to provide justifications.

Michael Hayden

top-news

No matter what United States do there is this move by North Korea to build missiles and put weapons on top of missiles, this is what they count on for regime survival. ... The best United States can do is box it where it is right now.

Michael Hayden

top-news

We are accelerating the re-analysis process we were asked to conduct. We plan to submit our response ... in the third quarter of 2016.

Michael Hayden

health-news

You are required not to follow an unlawful order. That would be in violation of all the international laws of armed conflict.

Michael Hayden

politics

The receptivity of the American public to this indicates that this is an issue, and Teva has to pay attention to it just like other pharma, politically, I can't see this becoming a reality. But the message is more important than the reality, and the message is that we have to be mindful of what the healthcare system can tolerate.

Michael Hayden

health-news

We need to change the way we're viewed by the public. We're doing good. We're really indispensable to the healthcare system, turing and others don't really help that perspective ... We have an image problem.

Michael Hayden

health-news

But we need to be responsible too. Our goal is not to make money and disrupt the whole healthcare system.

Michael Hayden

health-news

There is some virtue in a superpower having some continuity in its foreign policy.

Michael Hayden

politics

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

Michael Hayden

takes longer sticker truth

The problem with cyber weapons for a country like ours is the ability to control them.

Michael Hayden

control cyber problem country

Nothing more threatens Vladimir Putin than not being able to track his own citizens.

Michael Hayden

more nothing own being

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.

Michael Hayden

some intelligence future relationship

The question is how much of your privacy and your convenience and your commerce do you want your nation's security apparatus to squeeze in order to keep you safe? And it is a choice that we have to make.

Michael Hayden

nation choice you privacy

My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.

Michael Hayden

seek congress responsibility action

Before he played CIA Director Saul Berenson on 'Homeland,' a much younger Mandy Patinkin gained some fame as Inigo Montoya, a legendary swordsman, in 'The Princess Bride.'

Michael Hayden

bride some princess fame

To be perfectly candid, we're better at stealing other people's secrets than anyone else in the world. But we self-limit. We steal secrets to keep our citizens free and safe.

Michael Hayden

better candid people world

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.

Michael Hayden

legal intelligence community culture

Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.

Michael Hayden

think you moral law

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a political culture that every day demands more transparency and more public accountability from every aspect of national life, could American intelligence continue to survive and succeed? That jury is still out.

Michael Hayden

day intelligence life culture

The Constitution defends all of us against unreasonable search and seizure. What constitutes reasonableness depends upon threat.

Michael Hayden

us search against constitution