#intelligence

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#clark #cost #deal #did #eden

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions. ↗

— George Tenet

#absolve #actions #ask #consequences #curiosity

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#also #closely #community #counterparts #each

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#agencies #agency #central #difficult #impossible

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

— Robert Mueller

#fisa #foreign #intelligence #our #purpose

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. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#accountability #american #american people #community #congress

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. ↗

— Holly Near

#guts #huge #intelligence #keep #leap

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ↗

— George Orwell

#depth #duty #first #intelligent #men

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. ↗

— George Orwell

#believe #could #ideas #intelligent #intelligent person

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#any #bloody #i #intelligence #intelligent