Quotes by Ronald Kessler - Page 1

Love him or hate him, no one has been able to figure out Donald Trump.
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Able
Hate
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Figure
Him
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In typical Washington fashion, nothing gets reformed until a disaster happens.
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Disaster
Typical
Reformed
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The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
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Best
Future
Academy
Agents
Behavior
Fbi
Past
Best Future Past
Predictor
Teaches
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If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?
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Trust
Agents
Fbi
Fbi Agents
Trusted
Weapons
Arrest
Carry
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My mother, Minuetta Kessler, was a concert pianist and composer who performed at Carnegie Hall and Town Hall.
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Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Composer
Pianist
Concert
Concert Pianist
Hall
Town Hall
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When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'
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Fbi
Tape
Me Doing New
Battery
Bugged
Me New Doing
New One
Recorder
Tape Recorder
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When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.
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Enforcement
Fbi
Law Enforcement
Ran
Term
Post
Profiling
Recognized
Washington Post
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As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.
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Subjects
Titles
Probe
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Since 9/11, the U.S.A. Patriot Act has torn down the invisible wall that was perceived as preventing the FBI and CIA from sharing information.
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Cia
Fbi
Invisible
Patriot
Patriot Act
Preventing
Torn
Sharing
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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
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Assets
Billions
Dollars
Endowment
Former
Investors
Pension
Romney
Billions Of Dollars
Capital
Funds
Mitt
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In the sweep of history, George W. Bush will be seen as one of our greatest presidents because of the decisions he made to keep us safe after 9/11.
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Bush
George
George W
George W. Bush
Presidents
Sweep
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The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.
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Broken
Management
Truth Is
Congressional
Internal
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Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.
Ronald Kessler /
Efficient
Output
Money Your More
Directly
Fully
How Much
How Much Money
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Incredibly, whenever I have proposed the theory that half of government workers could be cut, current and former federal employees I know have all agreed.
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Former
Government Workers
Workers
Agreed
Current
Employees
Federal
Proposed
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Like Jon Voight, Pat Boone, Kelsey Grammer, and Gary Sinise, Clint Howard is one of the few courageous enough to identify himself publicly as a conservative.
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Courageous
Gary
Jon
Clint
Identify
Pat
Publicly
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If Madison Avenue advertising executives were to pick a song that would best represent America, the last one they would choose is 'The Star Spangled Banner.'
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Advertising
Banner
Executives
Madison
Madison Avenue
Avenue
Spangled
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I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.
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Sat
Watergate
Argue
Tuned
Woodward
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To become a Secret Service agent, applicants must pass a polygraph exam. But after being hired, agents are never required to undergo regular lie detector testing again.
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Exam
Polygraph
Secret
Testing
Agent
Detector
Lie
Hired
Pass
Regular
Required
Service
Undergo
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.
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War
Crisis
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leader
Made
President
Soviet
Decisions
Both
Could
John
Missile
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As the Marine One helicopter lifts off from the White House, the Prowler team watches for snipers. The team also responds to any threat that may arise at the White House itself.
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Arise
Lifts
Marine
Watches
White House
Helicopter
Responds
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Walk around any shopping mall, and you will see stores and restaurants opened six months ago and are - that are now closing. In the life of a company, eight years is an eternity.
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Closing
Eternity
Restaurants
Shopping
Mall
Opened
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To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.
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Agency
Bureaucrats
Immune
Needs
Secret
Beholden
Director
Entrenched
Outside
Service
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When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.
Ronald Kessler /
Academy
Fbi
Roger
Basement
Douglas
Robert
Roy
Va
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In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds, and I exposed that. And that led to his dismissal by President Clinton.
Ronald Kessler /
Abuse
Clinton
Engaging
Exposed
Fbi
President Clinton
William
Led
Revealed
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The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences.
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Authority
Differences
Intelligence Community
National Intelligence
Resolve
Appointment
Budgetary
Commission
Coordinate
Recommended
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I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me.
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Abuse
National Security
Me Important Security
Attracts
Engage
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'Fox lies' has become a favorite mantra of the Left, yet there is a reason Fox News blows away the other cable networks in ratings and is more trusted as a news source than any other television network.
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Fox News
Trusted
Blows
Cable
Fox
Mantra
Network
Ratings
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With the selection of Acting Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy as the director, President Obama has guaranteed that the agency will continue to lurch from one shocking security failure to another.
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Agency
President Obama
Selection
Shocking
Guaranteed
Joseph
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Voters who disregarded Richard Nixon's involvement in the questionable ethics issue that led to his Checkers speech should not have been surprised when he orchestrated the Watergate cover-up as president.
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Checkers
Disregarded
Ethics
Involvement
President
Questionable
Voters
Watergate
Cover-Up
Issue
Led
Nixon
Orchestrated
Surprised
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Should Hillary Clinton run for president, voters who ignore the difference between the image she seeks to project and the reality will have only themselves to blame if her presidency turns into a disaster.
Ronald Kessler /
Blame
Clinton
Disaster
Presidency
Turns
Voters
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Ignore
Seeks
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Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.
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Agents
Cia
Clock
Constant
Despite
Fbi
Fbi Agents
Media
Needed
Officers
Risk
Safe
Tools
Congressional
Plots
Threats
Uncover
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On a regular basis, to appease White House or campaign staffs, Secret Service officials order agents to ignore basic security rules and let people into events without being put through a magnetometer or metal detector.
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Agents
Appease
Officials
Secret
White House
Rules
Basic
Basis
Campaign
Detector
Ignore
Metal
Regular
Regular Basis
Service
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Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.
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Agency
Enforcement
Hoover
Law Enforcement
Edgar
Recognized
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While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.
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Independence
Boston
Declaration
Flames
Liberty
Party
Rebellion
Revolution
Tea Party
Tree
Aware
Fanning
Led
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TacOps is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.
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Devices
Mafia
Plant
Terrorist
Breaks
Bugging
Burglar
Describe
Homes
Offices
Unit
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I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.
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Embassy
Fbi
Hoover
Anecdote
Breaking
Flap
Recommend
Whereby
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One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.
Ronald Kessler /
Fbi
Investigation
Jeopardize
Moscow
Nevertheless
Russia
Archivist
Leak
Revealed
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Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.
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Quality
Agents
Cases
Enforcement
Firearms
Law Enforcement
Secret
Tactics
Training
Agencies
Report
Counterterrorism
Join
Offered
Service
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The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.
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Boston
Colonists
Downtown
Liberty
Magnificent
Streets
Tree
Corner
Nearby
Stood
Towering
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Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.
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Hiking
Income
Raised
Tax Returns
Wealthy
Workers
Tax
Report
Businesses
Capital
Hire
Likely
Recession
Returns
Send
Small Businesses
So-Called
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Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.
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Computers
Criminals
Grammar
Instance
Paper
Particular
Structure
Distinct
Writers
Pen
Sentence
Variations
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In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.
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Articles
Liberty
Obscure
Site
Tree
Below
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Rather than use the term 'profiling,' the profilers prefer to say they engage in criminal investigative analysis. That is because, besides developing profiles, the analysts offer a range of other advice, including personality assessments and interview techniques tailored to a particular offender.
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Advice
Analysis
Developing
Including
Particular
Range
Tailored
Term
Prefer
Besides
Criminal
Engage
Interview
Investigative
Profiles
Offender
Techniques
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Because of the terrorist threat, the FBI and CIA have become as important as the military in preserving our freedom. Yet while thanking our military is standard practice in American life, no one thinks of thanking the FBI, the CIA, or the rest of the intelligence community for keeping us safe since 9/11.
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American Life
Cia
Fbi
Intelligence Community
Military
Practice
Safe
Terrorist
Standard
Preserving
Thinks
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The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000 in ransom money in November 1971. But the truth is, the mystery man wearing dark sunglasses almost certainly died during the jump, according to the FBI agents on the case at the time.
Ronald Kessler /
Agents
Fbi
Fbi Agents
November
Sunglasses
Truth Is
Time Truth Money
According
Cooper
Truth Time Money
Jump
Lookout
Plane
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Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.
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Lacking
Motive
Profit
Study
Work Ethic
Workers
Appoint
Committee
Ethic
Instead
Meeting
Private
Supervisor
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