You have to remember Putins background. Hes a KGB officer. Thats what — James Clapper

"Of course, the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point."

"Russias aim wasnt to get anyone to actually believe the crazy stories they were publishing...The point of their influence operation was to overwhelm facts, to sow doubt that facts were even knowable."

"This evening, I had the opportunity to speak with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss recent media reports about our briefing last Friday. I expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press, and we both agreed that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security."

"If it werent for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of event which are still unfolding today, including Special Counsel Muellers investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place."

"I went on to say that I hoped he would abide by the long-standing principle of the [intelligence community] always telling truth to power."

"Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign"