Quotes by Amy Zegart

“Putting a lot of money and time in preparedness efforts where you may never see what you hope will never happen is not a politically attractive thing to do. The payoff is too far in advance.”

“If Im putting together my list of bad guys ... I wouldnt put universities at the top of the list.”

“Flawed by Design: The Evolution of the CIA, JCS and NSC.”

“There are a lot of people trying to reinvent the wheel in different localities. If youre the mayor of Poughkeepsie or Atlanta or San Diego, its not easy to know what the best practice is.”

“The intelligence community was stuck. It was stuck in Cold War ways, Cold War thinking, Cold War culture.”

“You had really junior analysts assigned to the biggest assignments.”

“Its going to be a bottom-up strategy.”