Intelligence Quotes

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

People are smarter than you might think.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.