3 December 2020 George Tenet To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
3 December 2020 Lewis Mumford One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
3 December 2020 Christian Lous Lange It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual’s intelligence or morality.
3 December 2020 Michael Mandelbaum The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
3 December 2020 Edward Thorndike Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
3 December 2020 Josh Billings There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
3 December 2020 John Fiske We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science – revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
3 December 2020 Cofer Black We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
3 December 2020 John McCarthy Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
3 December 2020 Chris Tucker It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
3 December 2020 John O. Brennan As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.
3 December 2020 Charles Kettering A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
3 December 2020 King Abdullah II If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
3 December 2020 David K. Shipler Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.
3 December 2020 Tanith Lee If they had said my writing wasn’t good enough, fair enough, that’s an opinion. But to say it’s too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
3 December 2020 Jane Harman 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.
3 December 2020 John Sununu We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
3 December 2020 Danny Aiello People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.
3 December 2020 Henri Bergson Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
3 December 2020 Yuri Milner Facebook is at the forefront. It’s the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
3 December 2020 Leonard Boswell I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.
3 December 2020 Andre Maurois People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
3 December 2020 Karl Von Clausewitz Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
3 December 2020 Robert Mueller In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.
3 December 2020 Charles Munch Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
