"I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context." - Ted StevensTweet
"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence." - Ian McewanTweet
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless." - Niccolo MachiavelliTweet
"Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters." - Alexander DownerTweet
"If little else, the brain is an educational toy." - Tom RobbinsTweet
"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools." - Giacomo CasanovaTweet
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert EinsteinTweet
"One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them." - Stephen CamboneTweet
"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 OsbourneTweet
"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 MuellerTweet