Intelligence Quotes

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

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.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

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.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.