Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
~By Konrad Adenauer ~
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.
~By Clare Short ~
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
~By Bobby R. Inman ~
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.
~By Roger Wicker ~
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed.
~By Hulagu Khan ~
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
~By James Allen ~
I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
~By Jane Harman ~
The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
~By Warren Christopher ~
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
~By Edgar Rice Burroghs ~
I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.
~By Louis Freeh ~
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
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.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.
~By Richard M. Helms ~
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.
~By Markus Wolf ~
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
~By William Shenstone ~
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.
~By John Pistole ~
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.
~By Lucien Bouchard ~
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.
~By John Pistole ~
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
~By Curt Weldon ~
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
It is not government's job to mandate responsibility on our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our children. It is up to us to do what is best for our health and our children's health.
~By Michael Crapo ~
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.
~By Curt Weldon ~
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
~By Leland Stanford ~
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.
~By Ron Silver ~
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
~By Pat Roberts ~
I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.
~By James R. Bath ~
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
~By Betty Dodson ~
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
~By James Lovelock ~
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
~By Gary Gygax ~
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Intelligence is not a science.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~By Albert Einstein ~
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
~By Ray Kurzweil ~
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
~By Paul Harris ~
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~By Holly Near ~
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
~By Josh Billings ~
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
~By Ted Stevens ~
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
~By Helen Gurley Brown ~
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
~By Grover Cleveland ~
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
~By Saint Augustine ~
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
~By Henri Bergson ~
The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.
~By Jane Harman ~
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
~By Alan Kay ~
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
~By John Keats ~
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
~By Lactantius ~
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Intelligence is a moral category.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
~By Huston Smith ~
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
~By Morris West ~
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
~By Chris Chocola ~
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
~By Cofer Black ~
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
~By David Hunt ~
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.
~By Chris Chocola ~
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
~By Sophia Bush ~
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
~By William Feather ~
I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
~By Auguste Rodin ~
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
Belief is the death of intelligence.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
~By Louis Freeh ~
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
~By Bobby Ray Inman ~
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