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Intelligence Quotes
"Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America."
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"Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous."
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
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"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."
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"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
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"People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up."
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"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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"Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them."
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"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."
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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."
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"Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence."
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"I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context."
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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
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"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."
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"We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers."
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"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."
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"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
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"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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"People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups."
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"I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
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"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
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"Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity."
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"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."
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"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
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"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."
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"If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
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"To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance."
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"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."
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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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"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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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence."
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"We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future."
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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
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"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."
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"The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th."
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"Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention."
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"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."
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"It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside."
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"Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership."
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"The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue."
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