John Ratcliffe

“The People's Republic of China has 2 million strong in its military, and it's trying to make them stronger through gene editing, and that's just one of the ways that China is trying to essentially dominate the planet and set the rules and the world order.”

“Beijing is preparing for an open-ended period of confrontation with the U.S. Washington should also be prepared. Leaders must work across partisan divides to understand the threat, speak about it openly, and take action to address it.”

“The Democrats keep repeating over and over again, 'the President is not above the law.' I've said it before, 'the President is not above the law' but he damn sure shouldn't be below it either.”

“I briefed the House and Senate Intelligence committees that China is targeting members of Congress with six times the frequency of Russia and 12 times the frequency of Iran.”

“China poses a greater national security threat to the U.S. than any other nation - economically, militarily and technologically. That includes threats of election influence and interference.”

“Iran and Russia have taken specific actions to influence public opinion related to our elections.”

“The Obama administration took a vital national security tool, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and they misused to surveil for political reasons.”

“All of the threat streams that we have, from all aspects, militarily, economically, supply chain issues, foreign investment, technologically, cyber issues, cyber warfare, 5G, telecommunications - China is in all of those and they are the only country to be in that space and the only country that threatens America supremacy.”

“We have already seen Iran sending spoofed emails, designed to intimated voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump.”

“The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.”

“The narrative often from Democrats and the media is that Republicans don't think the Russians have meddled in our election. They did.”

“Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.”

“I want to make it very clear, if confirmed as DNI, every whistleblower - past, present and future - will enjoy every protection under the law.”

“We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.”

“Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or that we realized.”

“As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political influence.”

“We will not tolerate foreign interference in our election.”

“China has even conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities.”

“Having consumed election influence intelligence across various analytic communities, it is clear to me that different groups of analysts who focus on election threats from different countries are using different terminology to communicate the same malign actions.”

“The documents I have declassified reveal that there are folks in the Biden - or, the Obama-Biden administration, senior national security folks that were aware of the fact that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign - no intelligence that supported that.”