Top intelligence Quotes Collection

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Image of Henry Paulson
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
- Henry Paulson
Collection: Intelligence
Image of John Key
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
- John Key
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Danny Aiello
Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.
- Danny Aiello
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Frank Carlucci
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
- Frank Carlucci
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Dennis C. Blair
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
- Dennis C. Blair
Collection: Intelligence
Image of John George Nicolay
Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
- John George Nicolay
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Tariq Ramadan
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
- Tariq Ramadan
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Douglas Rushkoff
I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.
- Douglas Rushkoff
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Janis Karpinski
In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
- Janis Karpinski
Collection: Intelligence
Image of George Tenet
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
- George Tenet
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Richard Helms
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
- Richard Helms
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Ted Stevens
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
- Ted Stevens
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Don Tapscott
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.
- Don Tapscott
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Leon Panetta
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
- Leon Panetta
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Eliezer Yudkowsky
The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Ray Kurzweil
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
- Ray Kurzweil
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Gijs de Vries
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
- Gijs de Vries
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Margaret J. Wheatley
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
- Margaret J. Wheatley
Collection: Intelligence
Image of George Tenet
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
- George Tenet
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Jane Harman
A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
- Jane Harman
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Bryant H. McGill
Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
- Bryant H. McGill
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
- Aldrich Ames
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.
- Aldrich Ames
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
- Aldrich Ames
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
- Aldrich Ames
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
- Aldrich Ames
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
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
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aldrich Ames
Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.
- Aldrich Ames
Collection: Intelligence
Image of E. Howard Hunt
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.
- E. Howard Hunt
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Malcolm X
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Mika
Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.
- Mika
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Daniel Tammet
I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.
- Daniel Tammet
Collection: Intelligence
Image of John O. Brennan
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people.
- John O. Brennan
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Victoria Moran
Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
- Victoria Moran
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Nick Denton
The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.
- Nick Denton
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Nathan Myhrvold
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
- Nathan Myhrvold
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Ben Schwartz
A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.
- Ben Schwartz
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Wale
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
- Wale
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Vladimir Putin
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Vladimir Putin
When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Aristotle
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Aristotle
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Henry Ford
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Socrates
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Collection: Intelligence
Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Dolly Parton
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
- Dolly Parton
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire
Collection: Intelligence
Image of George S. Patton
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
- George S. Patton
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Salvador Dali
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- Salvador Dali
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Plutarch
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Collection: Intelligence