Intellectuals Quotations

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

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

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

I would characterize you as a brilliant jurist, as having a remarkable intelligence, a prolific writer and a man of the highest integrity.

I was surprised that the relationship between intelligence and brain structure changed so much as a child grows up. In early childhood, the smartest children had a thinner cortex -- this is the opposite of what you'd expect. By late childhood, the pattern had changed completely.

Nick is an exceptional wrestler with great power, speed and intelligence.

Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity.

Neither the CIA nor French intelligence seems to be cooperating.

Most alarmingly, after 1998 and the exit of the U.N. inspectors, the CIA had no human intelligence sources inside Iraq who were collecting against the WMD target,

More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it. Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on alert, There were times when the White House was really aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?' We often lost the argument.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Nothing in our intelligence suggests that Iraq is ready to attack Washington or Fort Lauderdale,

Never before has anybody had a network of human intelligence on tap like this. The idea is to fix gaps where a program doesn't work well.

Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,

Rick's intelligence, ethics and leadership capabilities combined with his experience both inside Gateway and outside of Gateway make him the only logical choice as my successor,

My favorite thing about watching Joe is his sense of humor. He just has the most wonderful sense of humor. And he has this kind of depth which shows so much intelligence. You can tell because his take on the world comes out in his paintings. His take on the world is profound.

If we have any intelligence on people who may be lighting fires we pass that on to police. We leave the day-to-day monitoring to the police.

Mr. Tenet had a monumental task to rebuild human intelligence-gathering capabilities devastated by eight years of liberal Clinton administration policies,

Mind is the battery cell, Intelligence is the switch  

Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly

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

So far, there appears to be no evidence of intelligence personnel that directed any of the abuses, but the investigation does continue to date, and the investigation is open, ... We intend to remain very much engaged.

Similar, baseless accusations concerning Russia's intelligence have been made more than once.

Guide others towards the right path and be hated, rather than letting them walk on and be loved.

Know Me to be the eternal seed of all creatures. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, and the brilliance of the brilliant.

Given Cheney's background on national security going back to the Ford years, his time on the House Intelligence Committee, and as secretary of defense, Bush said at the top of his list of things he wanted Cheney to do was intelligence. In the first months of the new administration, Cheney made the rounds of the intelligence agencies - the CIA, the National Security Agency, which intercepted communications, and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.

I can tell you, however, that the committee has yet to hear from any intelligence official expressing such concerns, ... If any officials believe, however, that they have been pressured to alter their assessment, they have an obligation, and I encourage them to contact the committee.

Frankly I believe that there's too little funding for intelligence, we have too few assets and too few analysts. And I think if the Congress and others are going to demand a greater capacity in intelligence we're going to have to be prepared to pay for a more sophisticated and a more intense structure of intelligence capabilities, and I think its wrong for some members of Congress to vote to cut intelligence spending, to vote to cut the number of intelligence analysts and then to set unrealistically high demands on the intelligence community.

From this point, silence and intelligence are just two aspects of the same thing.

I am delighted that we have attracted John Fisher, a man with a wonderful reputation with singers, but who also demonstrated a desire and intellect to expand his work into the full general director's role.

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

to date, there is no specific intelligence that tells us or indicates to us that the convention itself would be subject to an attack.

have said that the gear that they put away matched the estimates that the intelligence agencies of both (British and Irish) governments provided.

We're of course dazzled by his intelligence. This is a guy who we hired as a math teacher who is brilliant with words and crossword puzzles. For a school like Choate, it's great to see someone range across disciplines with the quality of mind that he has.

He was a fairly high-ranking officer in the Libyan Intelligence Agency and his activities appeared to have, and can be reasoned to have, government involvement.

We looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we've come to the conclusion that it is broken, ... American Morning.

He didn't have one great pitch, but he got hitters out with intelligence and command.

If something happens it will be because the intelligence services provoke incidents to discredit us.

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

He was a person with extraordinary intelligence. But more than that, he was a real civic scientist, one who not only does great science, but uses that knowledge and fame to do good, to benefit society, and to try and educate the public. He had a palpable wish to solve some of the world's problems.

If it's actionable intelligence and we believe that there may be substance to that tip, we go ahead and conduct operations against, and that's just one of those cases,

He had a social contact with these people, but I deny that in any way, at least knowingly, he assisted them in intelligence gathering or locating dissidents.

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

His strongest selling point is his international reputation as a diplomat. He has the gravitas, the intelligence and the depth to be worthy of this post.

He's going to be my full-time secondary coach because he knows the game so well. That's the first thing I saw about him. His speed was lacking, but he made up for it with intelligence.

I find it reprehensible considering he (Goss) failed to carry out adequate oversight when he sat on the House intelligence committee.

He exhibited tremendous intelligence. And he liked to mess around with his opponents on the track. He didn't just want to beat them. He really wanted to break their hearts ... He would let them get ahead for just a minute and then turn it on and crush them.

Let me say this. I'm the Director of -- I'm the Director of Central Intelligence. The President of the United States sees me six days a week, every day. I tell him what the American intelligence community believes,

I wrote a letter to Gorbachev warning him that trouble was brewing. He replied, 'Alexander, you overestimate their intelligence and courage.' In July, I resigned. I said, 'Something's cooking, I can sense it.' He ignored me and went on holiday,

Our intelligence, co-operation and many other features we have as modern humans developed from our attempts to out-smart the predator.

It is my understanding from briefings that I have had with high-level sources within the intelligence organizations of this country that at least two of the identified terrorists so far were people known to intelligence and immigration agencies.

Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community,

Our people are used to these kind of incidents, and our intelligence agents found the footprints of Britain in the same incidents before,

It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized.

'I think everybody on the intelligence committee, everybody in the administration relied on flawed intelligence.

I think he is just scratching the surface. I think he has a lot of qualities. He's intelligent. He has a lot of qualities that fit what we're looking for at the quarterback position. The quarterback position in our offense is like a point guard in basketball. He has to deliver the mail. He has to make others look better.

I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong.

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

I think we have some momentum and can give Watauga some trouble at home, ... Well need to shut them down and maximize our attacks to have a chance to take them. If we play with intelligence and heart, it can happen.

I think we ought to be using all of our capabilities in terms of collecting the intelligence we need,

I think it should be used fairly and proportionately on the basis of intelligence.

To learn is something, but to apply is something different.

Yeah, we weren't certain, ... Still, in the context of everything else (intelligence chatter and a terror attack in Saudi Arabia), we could not set it aside and dismiss it as not credible.

The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,

The president didn't even tell the truth in his speech, ... He said that the Senate had the same intelligence that everybody else did. That was not true. He withheld some intelligence.

We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches,

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

We have a variety of intelligence and we're sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year. We've learned lessons from Iraq and we're getting improved intelligence from the Afghan people.

We have to play with intelligence and try to stop them getting the ball,

We do not have any intelligence indicating this type of attack is planned in the United States.

We had many intellectuals and industry people who looked down on us, as if it were beneath them to even watch us. Nowadays, those comparisons aren't made.

The fact is, I was not sent out to question what British intelligence might have, I was sent out to question the allegation that Saddam Hussein had attempted to purchase several hundred tons of uranium oxide from Niger.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

The Raptor not only combines the capabilities of several legacy aircraft by delivering air dominance, lethal intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, but it does so without adversaries even knowing the aircraft is out there -- as proven this past year. As the world's only 5th Generation fighter aircraft in operation, it has overwhelming capability to ensure USAF air dominance for the next four decades.

There is a threat...This is the object of our intelligence (verification).

We didn't deserve to win the game. It was one of the worst performances in poise and intelligence we've ever had. I thought we had better athletes, better stick skills and were better at handling the ball.

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

We do adjust patrols according to intelligence we have. We do the same for illegal alien traffic.

We will find him at some point. Wherever the intelligence takes us,

There is a deep fundamental dysfunction in the way we gather intelligence...

We would like to have clues as to where the United States' and other countries' intelligence feel they know Iraqis are storing weapons of mass destruction, ... Then, we can send in the inspectors.

We should improve our intelligence about what terrorists are doing in this area, but we shouldn't panic. I think the threat is quite small.

To be strong is to have passion, and to have passion is to believe.

We have no intelligence or evidence that indicates that he (Bin Laden) is dead or incapacitated, so our working assumption is that he is still alive.

We're getting more intelligence that's allowing us to stop more of these things, find more of them. So we're learning from them (the insurgents) and the enemy is learning from us, and it's going to be that way for as long as there is an insurgency.

unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence.

Through intelligence sources we determined there were a large number of insurgents in that area,

Duncan has good speed, skills and quickness and plays with tenacity and intelligence.

During emergencies learned ones make efforts using their intelligence.

disturbed by the extent to which the United States' intelligence officials have classified the pleadings, orders and memorandum opinions in this case.

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

content of the character and intellect of our people.

Twenty minutes compared to never, that's a lot. Our customer, the (U.S.) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), would get very upset (if) somebody looks in their database,