I am conscious of my inability to grasp in all its details and positive developments any very large portion of human knowledge.

As governor I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me a big part of it is information knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability judgment and knowledge but above all a passion for service.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place time and ability.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The intelligence community for the most part has no accountability at all to the Congress to us the American people and so they feel that they above the law.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information made better use of technology and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.