George Tenet Quotes

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

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• I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Never
  • Gun
  • Intelligence

• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Important
  • Game
  • Lawyer

• That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Great
  • Looking
  • Intelligence

• 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
  • Beauty
  • Sound
  • Fake

• You are just your intelligence.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • You
  • Just
  • Intelligence

• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Beginning
  • Intelligence

• Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Great
  • Nation
  • Utah

• Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Up
  • Action
  • Animal

• By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Great
  • Matter

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

• I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.

  

  Kate Upton
  • American
  • Horse
  • Nation

• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• The government of Iran has no problem with the American nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • American
  • Government
  • Nation

• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Talent
  • Intelligence

• Kansas City is one of the most convenient airports in the nation.

  

  Sam Graves
  • City
  • Nation
  • Kansas

• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• Newfoundlanders, what are we? We're slobbering idiots, slack-jawed simpletons, rustic fish billies living in Dogpatch-on-the-rocks, lower than lower Slobovians, the laughing stock and 'white trash' of Canada.

  

  Ray Guy
  • Laughing
  • Canada
  • Idiots

• Lenten fasts make me feel better, stronger, and more active than ever.

  

  Catherine of Genoa
  • Feels
  • Christianity
  • Stronger

• In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Strong
  • Try
  • Realism

• The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Problem
  • End
  • Civilization

• As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

  

  George Tenet
  • Nation
  • Intelligence
  • Capabilities