Quotes About Intelligence

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Sometimes James Bond movies drive me crazy. They're fun to watch, but they don't have anything to do at all with what intelligence officers really do.

I want to go to Mexico. I've been stonewalled, so far, by federal officials. I want to go to Mexico, and I want to meet with the top Mexican officials. I want to tell them my past experience and what I can do here as Sheriff to help them get better intelligence and communications on the drug thing, not the illegal immigration thing.

The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. I send them an e-mail, and I'm like, 'Okay, I have my eye on this,' or whatever.

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

Personally, I like to think I'm like my old man. I like to think I have the brains he did.

We're quite fortunate on 'The Chase,' we get to sit very still and you can concentrate on one thing at one time - the questions.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

'The Onion' is an amazing place to work because it's a bunch of really smart, collaborative writers who aren't afraid to try crazy things.

The only time information is really an edge is if you either have more or you're using it better.

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.

Every intelligence operation carries risks.

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.

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.

I joined the CIA in 1985 as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service.

I want to see you use your brain. Get the job done efficiently. I want to see an intelligent operator at work. And apart from that, to stay on my good side, just do as you're told.

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

I've felt too stupid and inadequate amongst my ultra-intelligent course-mates, yet too geeky and opinionated for commercial radio.

Inteligence lives longer than beauty.