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Intelligence Quotes
"In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should."
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"You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence."
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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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"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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"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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"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
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"Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence."
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"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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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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"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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"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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"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
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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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"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."
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"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
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"It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being."
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"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."
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"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
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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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"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
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"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."
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"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
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"I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can be an accountant, lawyer or nurse, for example."
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"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
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"There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence."
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"Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity."
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"Intelligence won wars, not brute force."
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"Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!"
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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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"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."
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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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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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"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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"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 we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership."
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"I want to exude strength and intelligence."
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"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
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"Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence."
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink."
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"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
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"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness."
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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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"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."
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"Obviously this person's a hazard. Stupid people are dangerous."
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"This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq."
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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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