A Quote by Cofer Black

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Cofer Black

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Intelligence Maker Officer Policy

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Cofer Black
American - Public Servant
Born: 1950

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

Michael Hayden

Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy.

Nelson Mandela

Indian president does not determine policy. Here President is not the policy maker. In the name of the president, the cabinet takes the policy decision.

Pranab Mukherjee

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

Aldrich Ames

I have a former Baltimore City police officer's uniform and his robe and hood. He was the grand dragon, which means state leader. His day job, what paid his bills, he was a Baltimore City police officer, not an undercover officer in the Klan gathering intelligence, but a bona fide Klansmen on the Baltimore City police force.

Daryl Davis

I was a policy office in my final tour in the Navy, a Russian policy officer, and we were always thinking about our interactions and how they would affect the country 10, 20 years from now.

Mikie Sherrill

I'm an implementer of policy, not a maker of policy.

Joseph Dunford

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

Chuck Grassley

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.

Robert Dallek

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Peter James

As a policy maker, I have to stand up for the rights of all my constituents, regardless of their faith.

Mike Quigley

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

Paul Ryan

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

Rafik Hariri

...We have seven people who knew the skewers were there: the wedding planner, the reception hall manager, the dressmaker, the florist, the veil-maker, the cake-maker, and the caterer. I haven't ruled out the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker, either.

Linda Howard

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.