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"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."
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"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
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"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
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"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
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"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."
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"Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius."
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"Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart."
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"Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking for yourself."
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"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
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"It is not that men become too intelligent for God,' says the Apologist, 'but rather they become too arrogant for intelligence."
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"Intelligence is a moral category."
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"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not."
Leadership
"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
Rights
"Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history."
History
"The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort."
Time
"Bin Laden is remarkably eager for Americans to know why he doesn't like us, what he intends to do about it and then following up and doing something about it in terms of military actions."
Action
"The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book."
American
"I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor."
Leadership
"We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq."
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"Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'"
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"Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about."
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