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 ~
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
~By James Clavell ~
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
~By Josh Billings ~
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
~By Thomas Francis Meagher ~
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.
~By Charles Munch ~
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
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.
~By John Sununu ~
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
~By Paul Claudel ~
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
~By Marya Mannes ~
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
~By George H. Mead ~
Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
~By Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont ~
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
~By Leopold Trepper ~
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
~By Arlen Specter ~
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
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 ~
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.
~By Jon Porter ~
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
~By Wayne White ~
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
~By Pat Brown ~
But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.
~By Adam Schiff ~
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.
~By John Fiske ~
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
~By Don Herold ~
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 ~
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
~By Mitt Romney ~
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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 ~
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The universe is an intelligence test.
~By Timothy Leary ~
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.
~By Catharine Beecher ~
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
~By Pat Roberts ~
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
~By Lao Tzu ~
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
~By Carrie Chapman Catt ~
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
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 ~
If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.
~By Paul Bremer ~
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 ~
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
~By Shirley Hazzard ~
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
~By Carl Levin ~
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
~By Seymour Hersh ~
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~By Theodore White ~
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
Intelligence is not a science.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
~By Titus Livius ~
Belief is the death of intelligence.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
Intelligence is a moral category.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence.
~By Thomas Smith ~
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
~By Richard Perle ~
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
~By William Hedgcock Webster ~
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
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 ~
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
~By Bob Graham ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
~By Bernard Liautaud ~
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
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 ~
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
~By John McCarthy ~
I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.
~By Warren Christopher ~
They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.
~By Douglas Feith ~
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
~By Daniel Goleman ~
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
~By Studs Terkel ~
Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.
~By Markus Wolf ~
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
~By Bob Barr ~
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
~By John Sterling ~
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
~By Joseph Story ~
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