Intelligence Quotes

"The big piece out here is human intelligence, and we don't have any. We don't have a connection to local leaders, and we've never been able to bridge the gap with them."
-Steve Lawson

"In the case of Iraq the quality of intelligence and the analysis of that intelligence was abysmally bad."
-Gary Samore

"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
-Jacques Maritain

"We have to have the moral will. We have to have the intelligence. We have to have the political leadership to change this."
-Myra Christopher

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
-Ambrose Bierce

"The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive."
-William Webster

"For far too long UK schools have had a lop-sided curriculum in which the accent has been on academic intelligence rather than emotional intelligence."
-Anthony Seldon

"We're happy that it's over, I didn't like the way it ended. We didn't play with intelligence in the end."
-Francis Simmons

"We have absolutely no credible intelligence or threats pertaining to this issue."
-Richard Kolko

"I think the American intelligence agency put into practice what is very common there; just give us all the information. And do not arrest that man; just let him go ahead. We will have him followed and that way gain more information."
-Ruud Lubbers

"They said they have no intelligence, and I don't believe that, ... The Vatican refuses totally to cooperate with us."
-Carla Del Ponte

"The most important tool, ... is more information sharing between intelligence agencies."
-Jim Langevin

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

"They have provided some valuable intelligence information with respect to the war on terror."
-John Negroponte

"If intelligence is the ability to adapt to change, then wisdom is to know how and why to adapt for more than personal or economic gain."
-Ivan Urlaub

"An intelligent man who can be an effective communicator. Instead of using his intelligence, they do all these contrived events, with people asking contrived questions."
-Arnold Steinberg

"It appears they [the Joint Chiefs] interpret cartoons as accurately as they do prewar intelligence."
-Clay Bennett

"It was a combination of technical and human intelligence that led us to him."
-Larae Quy

"Based on our market intelligence we are going to dedicate more people than 3Com in Russia in 2006."
-Wenceslao Lada

"There should be another chair before us, with an accompanying name card that reads director of national intelligence."
-Jay Rockefeller

"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
-Charles Evans Hughes

"It creates a corporate culture that does not encourage challenging prevailing views and wisdom. And that is absolutely death. It guarantees intelligence failures."
-Patrick Eddington

"There's either credible intelligence or there isn't."
-John North

"Nick is an exceptional wrestler with great power, speed and intelligence."
-Aaron Sarra

"But I think the intelligence was accurate, and that it was put to legitimate use in the drafting process."
-Richard Dearlove

"We're trying to gather some intelligence. There may be a larger group of them being held."
-Danny Perez

"Technology is one of the biggest threats to our intelligence systems and one of the biggest opportunities."
-Amit Yoran

"An implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production."
-Steven Aftergood