Briefing Quotes

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.

Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

Press plays "gotcha"; limit press briefings.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.

The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness.