For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. - Honore De Balzac
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. - Charles Foster Bass
It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' - Arthur H. Compton
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. - Quentin Crisp
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. - Gijs de Vries
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? - Andrew Greeley
But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. - Norman McLaren
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission. - John Pistole
Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center. - Jim Ramstad
But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11. - Adam Schiff
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border. - Paul Cellucci
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish. - Cofer Black
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up, and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being. - Markus Wolf
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. - Karl A. Menninger
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. - William F. Buckley, Jr.
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. - Janis Karpinski
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. - Aldrich Ames
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. - Josh Billings
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. - William Shenstone
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor. - Paul Harris
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas. - Bobby R. Inman
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. - Titus Livius
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. - Stephen Cambone
So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence. - Thierry Henry
Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence. - Thomas Smith
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud