Quotes About Intelligence

It would have been more comfortable for us as a society if Anita Hill wasn't as intelligent, poised, and credible as she was.

Police can only act on intelligence.

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.

Good counter-terrorism is when you have close relationships between the policing and intelligence services.

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.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with them, or read the papers.

In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured.

Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what's going on in the U.S. political system and what the candidates are thinking is of high interest to Russian intelligence.

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

I really like the way 'Bond' girls are portrayed on screen.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.