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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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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
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"Your EQ (emotional quotient) is your capacity to recognize, discriminate, and label emotions accurately and interpret them to help guide your thinking and behavior."
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"Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence."
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"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."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it."
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"In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise."
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"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."
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"The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them."
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"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."
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"We are tangled in a very significant Islamic insurgency in Iraq."
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"No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area."
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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."
Intelligence

"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."
Violence

"It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest."
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"No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable."
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"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected."
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"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not."
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