I've always felt in all my books that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts providing they have the information.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing.

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Well I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that since 1998 there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature both animals and plants the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself you don't have to think about it.

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

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons and there's a lot of work that's gone into it so it can't all be just a lie.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks but few with their intelligence. I however assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her without reserve she lends them to us she shows us these forms which our watching eyes do not see which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.