Intelligence Quotes

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

Damon Albarn

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Dick Cavett

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

Bill Nelson

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.

Bobby Ray Inman

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Charles Evans Hughes

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

Leonard Boswell

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Aldrich Ames

I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?

Albert Wynn

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

Mitt Romney

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Friedrich Schiller

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E. B. White

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Victor Hugo

With foxes we must play the fox.

Thomas Fuller

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

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.

Wayne White

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

William Hedgcock Webster

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

Jim Ryun