National Intelligence Quotes

• The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.

  Theodore Stevens

  Hard Work, Agreement, Voice

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• Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Priorities, Process, Should

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• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Stupid, Men, Views

  "Through Russian Eyes: President Kennedy's 1036 Days". Book by Anatoly Gromyko, p. 128, 1973.

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• I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

  Roberto Cavalli

  Personality, Enough, Admire

  Interview with Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. July 15, 2011.

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• Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  Alan Perlis

  Believe, Science, Technology

  "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

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• I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

  Theodore Stevens

  Effort, Community, Currents

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• I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave a false statement to Congress under oath, which is a felony. If we allow our officials to knowingly break the law publicly and face no consequences, we're instituting a culture of immunity, and this is what I think historically will actually be considered the biggest disappointment of the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Edward Snowden

  Disappointment, Thinking, Law

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• I was hoping to catch [Vladimir] Putin in a lie - like what happened to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [in his congressional testimony]. So I asked Putin basically the same questions about Russian mass surveillance. I knew he's doing the same thing, but he denied it.

  Edward Snowden

  Lying, Directors, Surveillance

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• Lieutenant General Michael Flynn ran the defense intelligence agency from 2012 to 2014. He served as a top national intelligence adviser to General Stanley McChrystal in Iraq.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Agency, Iraq, Defense

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality of these bodies, to get together.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Police, Together

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

  Leonard Boswell

  Decision, Directors, Clout

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• 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.

  Leonard Boswell

  Jobs, Mean, Directors

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• I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracy, Library, Conviction

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• I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the CIA. But he is. He's afraid of the NSA as well. How else to explain that the National Intelligence director, who lied under oath to his senate overseers on the 12th of March 2013, is still the director of National Intelligence?

  Ray McGovern

  Nsa, President, Directors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Jim Ramstad

  Community, Directors, Needs

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• The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject.

  Laurence Silberman

  Mass Destruction, Views, Community

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• I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.

  Jim Ramstad

  Agency, Directors, Should

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• A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

  Jane Harman

  Years, Ideas, Directors

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