Jane Harman Quotes

#1. When you put your mind to it, you usually find that there is a way to achieve what you want after all.

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#2. The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

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#3. At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel.

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#4. We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

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#5. There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

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#6. I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

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#7. Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

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#8. But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

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#9. So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

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#10. I think Democrats in Congress love Israel. Our relationship with Israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship.

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#11. The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

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#12. Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

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#13. A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

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#14. We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

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#15. In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

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#16. If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.

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#17. Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

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#18. The Clinton foundation has done a lot of good in the world.

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#19. In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

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#20. As the Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted Al Qaeda. I believe the program is essential to US national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities.

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