Intelligence Quotes

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.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

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.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

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.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.