210 Quotes About Intelligence-and-intellectuals

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Obviously, we didn't have the intelligence we needed in that particular instance. In some sense, those countries that pursue weapons of mass destruction in secret also learned an important lesson - that there are risks of that kind of behavior and that kind of activity.

I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people are flat wrong.

Our statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein were based on the aggregation of intelligence from a number of sources and represented the collective view of the intelligence community,

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

roughly the same intelligence that the Clinton administration saw.

This is absolutely a phenomenal project, and it still can be if it's done right, ... And I don't know if the mayor's got that kind of intelligence around him to get this done right. I was here to help him do it. I was probably the only one who spoke the truth.

Now we have a sort of economical drying of intellectuals,