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"You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services."
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"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
"He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction."
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes."
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"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
"Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential."
"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home."
"If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk."
"Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime."
"I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism."
"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."
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