Intelligence Quotes - page 54

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all? (Jeffrey Kluger)
Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area. View quote
Jack Keane
We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy. View quote
Jill Tarter
We need to use the benefit of our law enforcement people across this country, combined with our intelligence people across this country. We need to use our technological advantages, because what we've warned of is an international guerrilla movement that threatens this country. View quote
Jim Gilmore
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four. View quote
Jim Lehrer
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck. View quote
Jim Parsons
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. View quote
Jim Ramstad
Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks. View quote
Jim Ryun
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. View quote
Jim Sensenbrenner
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence. View quote
John Bruton
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions. (John Key)
We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. View quote
John Mica
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. View quote
John Podhoretz
The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft. View quote
John S. Pistole
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. View quote
John Sterling
The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security. View quote
Jon Porter
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. View quote
Joseph Chilton Pearce
No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind. View quote
Julia Quinn
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. View quote
Jamais Cascio
Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower. View quote
Jamais Cascio
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit. (Katherine Boo)
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations. View quote
Leopold Trepper
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man. View quote
Linda Hunt
Of course I believe in aliens. I think it's very egocentric to think that there's nothing else with intelligence in the whole universe. View quote
Lizzie Brochere
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. View quote
Louis J. Freeh