Quotes About Intelligence

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.

Making history is difficult, almost impossible, for those without my athletic ability and intelligence.

Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

I want intelligence in my wife, but not too much she might see through me.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

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?

The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.