Intelligence Quotes

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

I don't know how to depict intelligence.

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

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.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.