Intelligence Quotes
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	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.   
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	I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.   
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	Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.   
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	We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.   
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	I've never thought intelligence was age-related.   
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	Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.   
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	I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.   
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	I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.   
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	The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.   
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	Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.   
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	Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.   
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	Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.   
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	Man knows so much and does so little.   
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	Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.   
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	Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.   
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	I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.   
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	Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.   
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	The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.   
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	Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).   
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	I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.   
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	I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.   
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	U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.   
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	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.   
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	I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					